Across numerous sessions, workshops, awards, and networking events we’ll provide our delegates with the tools, contacts, data and market intelligence they need to light a fire under the regional energy transition.
What can you expect from the CREF 2023 agenda?
Pre-CREF Day | April 26
CREF 2023 | April 27-28
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Island stakeholders will collaboratively triage the most pressing challenges facing the region, brainstorm and pitch solutions, and work to find consensus on an immediate action plan for one breakthrough resolution. More information here.
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The 1st annual Hydrogen Summit for the Caribbean (H2-Caribbean 2023) is designed to bring the upstream and downstream market together to explore the viability and potential of Hydrogen to bolster and transform regional economies.
In the annual CREF Ministerial, regional leaders explore how national strategies need to evolve and adapt in light of the current global energy dynamic, the pressing need for decarbonization and the drive for energy security. Are we adapting, and are we delivering?
Facing a financial squeeze, and the double demand of delivering on clean energy, and ensuring affordable energy to consumers, how are utilities adapting to this new paradigm?
How does progress towards the energy transition correlate to national objectives? This market-by-market study reveals which Caribbean countries are on target – and which are still fighting for traction. The study, representing an exhaustive survey of regional governments and utilities, also provides insights into where key national stakeholders perceive the challenges to lie.
Even if inflation cools, higher interest rates and choppy macroeconomic waters will likely persist into 2023. How will prevailing market conditions impact the bankability of PPAs and the flow of capital into regional clean energy projects?
Despite challenging prevailing conditions, Puerto Rico has made extraordinary strides towards ambitious energy transition objectives. An ambitious program led by Puerto Rico’s Energy Bureau (PREB) aims to procure 3.75 GW of renewables and 1.5 GW of storage as part of the island’s bid – as set out in Act 17 – to be 100% renewable by 2050. Meanwhile, the distributed market has taken off, too.
The 5th annual CREF Industry Awards will recognize excellence in clean energy innovation and project execution across the region. View all award categories for 2023 here.
– Gut-check: Is Barbados on course to hit ambitious plans for a net-zero economy?
– How can IPPs and investors best match the strategy of the administration?
– What does approval of the new electricity law, which streamlines private sector investment in RE, imply for clean energy and resilience related job creation?
– RTRE: from legislation to implementation – update on application volume and conversion into panels on roofs, and the interplay with the broader energy matrix
Regulation is the backbone of the energy transition. How can regional regulators lead from the front?
-How have island regulators adapted regulation to reflect the current energy dynamic and government RE and storage objectives?
-What further changes would support an efficient and effective transition policy?
-The varying regulatory approaches to DG around the region: Does regulation match need? Are regulators wrestling successfully with storage?
-What factors are dominating decision-making for project developers?
-How are they responding to challenges related to supply chain, inflationary pressures, evolving project risk?
-How do project developers view the viability of the pipeline given current market dynamics?
-What does an updated National Energy Policy and associated legislative developments imply for the project pipeline and opportunities for investment?
-The Access to Energy Services Initiative: A key progress marker for national mini-grid electrification?
-Assessing Belize’s electric vehicle ambitions, including programs, both municipal and long distance
-Testing the waters in Belize for potential co-generation from organic wastes
-What are the nationally-stated objectives for renewables and are they viable?
– Project pipeline: who is building and who is financing?
-Expectations for PPA prices? will the administration comply with pricing on existing contracts?
-What will incentivize investor appetite for the DR?
-Are investors and financial institutions willing to accept more spot market risk?
-Energy storage: clarity on incentives, regulation and implementation
-How is the DR addressing transmission challenges and planning for grid stability?
-What progress have we seen since CREF 2022 in renewable energy, energy efficiency and decarbonization initiatives? Is the commitment real?
-Trinidad’s utility-scale solar PV: update and future plans for RE development at utility scale
-How does Trinidad’s energy strategy interplay with the needs and wants of industry?
-Green hydrogen: Trinidad’s silver bullet?
The question on everyone’s lips: Will the next RFP for the procurement of renewables see the light of day in 2023?
-Will we see the regulation needed to enable DG to thrive?
-Will the RFP be the solution to Jamaica’s energy needs and satisfy customer expectations for reliable and affordable service, or a burden on end-users due to unaddressed concerns?
-What does effective and viable procurement look like for Jamaica?
-Will the new global hydrocarbon players prioritize development of clean energy?
-What do their respective roadmaps look like?
-Will this newfound hydrocarbon-derived wealth translate into wider benefits for a just transition in the region?
– Approaches to scaling, design, development
– Regional outlook and opportunities
- Progress in the OECS and what comes next
- Focus on direct use geothermal to meet decarbonization goals
- Capacity and regulation in support of geothermal
– How can regional stakeholders develop a comprehensive strategy for resilience building?
– Engaging data-based digital approaches to resilience and disaster planning
– Based on extreme climate events of recent years, what lessons have we learned and how can they be applied (and funded)?
- Gender milestones in practice: How, why, what’s next?
– Transforming regulation from a barrier to an enabler of energy transition
– Supporting regulatory evolution with capacity building and technical assistance
- What impact are we seeing from energy investment in the region?
- What are the solutions to deepen and expand energy efficiency initiatives on the ground?
- The technologies making a difference, and how they can best be deployed
Storage is taking off in the Caribbean. Spotlighting standout projects, we analyze best practice, emerging trends, and the project pipeline across the region.
From the perspective of regional conglomerate leaders, we gauge the regional appetite for distributed projects, what’s driving the market, which regulators are best supporting DG, and where we can expect to see growth in 2023.
Are we seeing meaningful progress towards EV deployment? Where, and what can we learn?
In the face of global volatility and a rapidly-changing climate has the landscape shifted for governments and utilities looking at the long-term provision of baseload?
