Bonaire

Bonaire adds smart battery energy storage system

August 16, 2019

Bonaire has added a new smart and battery-based energy storage system (BESS) to its power grid. Contour Global worked closely with engineering, procurement and construction contractor Wärtsilä and its US-based Greensmith Energy subsidiary. The latter specializes in distributed battery energy storage system and development and integration. The company will incorporate a 6-megawatt lithium-ion BESS into […]

Contract awarded for 6MW energy storage project in Bonaire

January 28, 2019

Wärtsilä, a global leader in smart technologies in marine and energy markets, has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for a 6MW hybrid energy storage project in the Caribbean island of Bonaire. The island, part of the Netherlands Antilles, will see an integration of its generation assets, an increase in its use […]

Dutch Caribbean pushes islands to be majority renewable powered

February 22, 2017

St. Eustatius and Saba, islands of the Dutch Caribbean, are boldly pushing their island systems to be solar and wind powered. In St. Eustatius, a solar field is being expanded and at the projects completion in September, solar energy will generate 46% of the island’s electricity. Wind energy is under assessment and if added could take […]

Winds of change slow to reach Caribbean’s renewable energy landscape

October 4, 2016

A paper published in the current issue of the journal Energy Policy examines the causes behind the slow pace of renewable energy development in the Caribbean. Harrie Vredenburg and colleagues surveyed 36 political jurisdictions in the Caribbean to assess factors that promote and restrict initiatives for greener energy generation. One outcome explained that incumbent electric […]