Dominica’s long-standing efforts to develop its geothermal resource have been well documented. Nearly a decade ago an exploratory drilling program confirmed the existence of a viable high temperature resource. Since then, Dominica’s bid to harness its geothermal has seen highs and lows but ultimately the project at Wotten Waven-Laudat – while it has attracted interest […]
Panama added 46 MW of new large-scale PV capacity in 2016, according to local regulator Autoridad de los Servicios Públicos (ASEP). Seven ground-mount PV plants ranging in size from 500 kW to 10 MW were connected to the local grid, thus bringing the country’s cumulative PV capacity to 89 MW. According to ASEP’s figures, PV […]
The Government of Saint Lucia has expressed its commitment to continue to work towards the development of renewable energy on the island. This after US-based firm WindTex Energy disappointingly cancelled plans for a previously announced wind farm on the east coast, less than four months after the new administration gave its commitment to the developer, […]
The twin-island state Antigua and Barbuda has taken a leading role in terms of clean energy supply in the Caribbean. This leadership has been strengthened through the completion of 11 solar installations on the small private island Jumby Bay in the north of Antigua by the renewable energy provider PV Energy Limited. The implementation of […]
The amount of distributed generation PV systems installed in Mexico could triple this year. According to estimates provided by local solar installer Conermex, over 50,000 systems of this kind could be connected to the Mexican grid in 2017. The company claims that this significant increase will be mainly due to the new regulation for renewable […]
SolarReserve announced it has received approval from the government of Chile to construct a 450-MW solar facility with energy storage. The Tamarugal Solar Project in the Tarapaca region of Chile will consist of three 150-MW solar thermal towers, each with 13 hours of full-load energy storage and 5.8 GW/h of total energy storage capacity. “SolarReserve’s […]
In a report published late last year, IRENA provides a great overview on renewable energy deployment in Latin America. While geothermal energy does not play a tremendously large role in the overall energy supply in the region, it plays an important role in some of the countries in the region. Geothermal energy plays a particularly […]
The government of Colombia has published the Decreto 348 del 1 de marzo de 2017, a new piece of legislation to support the installation of small and medium-sized renewable energy and solar power generators across the country. The new regulations will apply to renewable energy power generators with a capacity of up to 100 kW […]
Hajime Takeuchi, the Director General for Latin America and the Caribbean for the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), has confirmed he will participate in GEOLAC 2017. JICA’s perspective, as one of the biggest financiers of geothermal across the region, is particularly germane to broader discussions at GEOLAC this year around the long-term competitiveness of geothermal […]