90 speakers are now confirmed for 2015 Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum (CREF 2015) in what is a stellar line-up of regional and international stakeholders and leaders. Recent highlights to the agenda include the Assistant Secretary General of CARICOM, Joseph Cox, SunEdison’s General Director for Latin America & the Caribbean, Carlos Barrera, and St. Kitts’ Minister […]
The roster of CREF 2015 sponsors includes leading private sector entities from across the Caribbean renewables market value chain: solar, wind, storage, geothermal, smart grid, and ocean technology companies. National interests are represented via the sponsorship of the Governments of the UK and Canada. Multilateral support for the event is also strong with notable support from The […]
Enel Green Power has invited representatives from communities that surround live in the areas surrounding the Cerro Pabellón Geothermal site to Italy to view a geothermal power plant in action. Though this visit, which took place from September 15 – 18, community members were introduced to the technology, entrepreneurs and local leaders who spoke on […]
According to a study released by Colombia’s Ministry of Energy and Mines, Colombia will offer $554 million in renewable energy incentives over the next fifteen years. Incentives take the form of discounts on income taxes as well as VAT and duty exemptions. Though this program, installed capacity of renewables could increase from 420 MW today to […]
Barbados moves targeted date for a 20% reduction in energy use forward. CREF 2015 speaker Senator the Honorable Darcy Boyce spoke this week at the Smart Energy Barbados event about a revision to Barbados’ plan to reduce electricity use, which currently costs the government $ Barbados 100 million or approximately USD $ 50 million annually. While the […]
The head of the European Chambers of Commerce (Eurocamara),Hans Witsenboer, recently admonished the Dominican Republic’s efforts to develop renewable energy and combat climate change. “The Dominican Republic is going very badly on climate change and it´s investing heavily in the construction of two coal-fired plants that have high pollution footprint when they should be using […]
Ending a saga that started in 2007, El Salvador gained full control this week of LaGeo, “one of the largest geothermal companies in Central America. LaGeo was a joint venture between Enel Green Power and state-owned outfit Inversiones Energeticas S.A. de C.V.”
Montserrat geothermal projects to move forward next year. Funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), a third geothermal well will be drilled in Montserrat. Following on the heels of two other wells that are each currently producing 1.5 MW of power, this new well hopes to bring Montserrat geothermal production to ~5 MW.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the First Global Bank have partnered to give Jamaicans access to affordable loan financing for projects related to climate-smart agricultural and climate change mitigation solutions. According to Peter Lindo, Vice President of First Global Bank, the loans are different than traditional green financing, which typically targets […]