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UAE-Caribbean Renewable Energy Fund announces recipients
January 16, 2019
Recipients of the third cycle of the EAU-Caribbean Renewable Fund were announced during IRENA’s General Assembly, last Sunday. Funds were assigned to Jamaica, Cuba, Surinam and Trinidad and Tobago. In total, projects will provide 2.35 MW of solar energy and 600 kW of battery storage plants. The savings of these projects are estimated at USD […]
Small-scale solar and storage project installed in Puerto Rico
January 16, 2019
The not-for-profit organisations, Casa Pueblo and Empowered by Light, have announced the successful installation of a solar PV and energy storage system in Puerto Rico. Alongside 16kW of installed solar power, two Tesla Powerwall storage systems will supply a nursing home in La Misericordia. This project will allow the community to replace its diesel generators, […]
IRENA publishes ‘Renewable Energy: A gender perspective’ report
January 15, 2019
A report recently published by IRENA emphasised the role of women in renewable energy, and calculated that 32% of the workforce are women. This key report researched the women’s roles, as workers and decision-makers, in the global renewable energy market. Considering the previous knowledge gap on this matter, this report puts forward interesting findings. Through […]
LNG power plant in El Salvador now under construction
January 14, 2019
The technology group Wärtsilä has started construction on a 378MW LNG-powered project in El Salvador. The power plant, the largest and most efficient in El Salvador, will be one of the first in Central America to use liquified natural gas. Energía del Pacífico, a company formed in response to the Government of El Savador’s call […]
Solar park in Antigua enters into commission
January 11, 2019
The Swiss-based clean energy company, The meeco Group, has announced two of its solar projects, totaling 4.44 MWp, simultaneously entered into operation – one in Germany, and the other in Antigua. The projects were both commissioned in December 2018, on the same date. The Bethesda project, in Antigua, built and commissions by PV Energy, is […]
BMR Energy new owner and operator of solar farm in Cayman Islands
January 11, 2019
BMR Energy, a member of the Virgin Group, announced it has bought and will subsequently take over operations for a 5MW solar plant in the Cayman Islands. The company develops and operates clean energy projects in the Caribbean and in Latin America. BMR Energy also has projects in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guatemala and Jamaica. […]
Solar PV project furthers rural electrification in Panama
January 10, 2019
The energy and water foundation acciona.org, the corporate foundation of ACCIONA, a global energy company, has brought electricity to 2.250 people in seven indigenous communities in Panama. The Luz en Casa Ngäbe-Buglé project, the foundation’s first project in Panama installs solar home systems at lower costs than alternative lighting systems. Similar projects have already been […]
55MW Costa Rican geothermal project to be completed by mid-year
January 10, 2019
The Las Pailas II Geothermal Project is set to integrate into the Costa Rican National Electric System (SEN) in six months time, after a final testing phase. The plant, located in the northwest of the country, will generate sustainable electricity from 55MW of installed capacity. Las Pailas II is the seventh plant of this type […]
Biogas network grows in Cuba
January 9, 2019
A local engineer, Alexander López Savran, has used his bio-digester innovation to create a distribution network for biogas in neighboring communities in Cuba. “A new bio-digester has been designed to obtain pressure, which means that biogas can be distributed more than five kilometres away without the need for a compressor or blower,” said Mr. Savran, […]