Caribbean Clean Energy News

January 20, 2021

2020 Island Resilience Action Challenge: Uniting to define resilience in the face of climate and health threats

By: Kimberly Lewis, Lead Fellow, Advanced Energy Group At the tail end of a notably unprecedented and challenging year, Advanced Energy Group (AEG)…

January 20, 2021

Puerto Rico awaits first procurements to add 3.75 GW solar, 1.5 GW storage

The Puerto Rico Energy Bureau ordered the utility PREPA to issue six procurements in the next 30 months, totaling 3.75 GW of solar and 1.5 GW of…

January 14, 2021

France’s island territories get solar-plus-storage at average price below €100/MWh in latest auction

The cost of solar energy paired with battery storage on France’s island territories has fallen yet again, as the European country awarded contracts…

January 12, 2021

InterEnergy acquires 34-MW wind farm plus pipeline in Dominican Republic

Energy solutions provider InterEnergy Group announced the acquisition of the 34-MW Matafongo onshore wind farm plus an under-development project…

January 7, 2021

Utility to operate as private company despite Grenada owning majority shares

  Grenada’s Finance Minister Gregory Bowen says the light and power company in that Caribbean country, Grenlec, will continue to operate as a…

December 29, 2020

WRB/GPP reach settlement with Government of Grenada, transfer Grenlec shares

WRB Enterprises (WRB) and Grenada Private Power Limited (GPP) announced it had executed a Settlement Agreement with the Government of Grenada agreeing…

December 21, 2020

National electricity loss reduction plan consultancy in Jamaica

The Inter-American Development Bank has published a call for proposal for a project in Jamaica to support the recovery of the energy sector from…

December 21, 2020

Dominican Republic authorizes studies for 200MW solar project

The Dominican Republic’s national energy commission, CNE,  has greenlighted studies for a large-scale solar park in San Pedro de Macorís…

December 14, 2020

Government of St. Kitts and Nevis and Leclanché break ground on Caribbean’s largest solar generation and storage system

The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis, the state-owned St. Kitts Electric Company and Switzerland’s Leclanché SA  have broken ground…