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Resiliency

  • How the United States’ renewed leadership on climate is impacting energy sector priorities in the Caribbean

    August 4, 2021

    As regional leaders around the world convene to decide on climate investment commitments in advance of COP26, this webinar hosted by Deloitte and Rocky Mountain Institute will bring together key stakeholders to discuss how the U.S.’ renewed leadership on combatting climate change is impacting renewable energy sector priorities in the Caribbean. This event will bring together representatives […]

  • Devastating natural disasters show the need for resilient, sustainable and inclusive infrastructure

    May 21, 2021

    The eruptions on St Vincent are only the latest example of the damage such events can inflict on infrastructure that is not built to be resilient. Infrastructure is key to climate mitigation and adaptation efforts across the world. For states like St Vincent, as the La Soufrière eruptions have shown, infrastructure will define the battle […]

  • Solar FlexRack’s mounting technology installed in Bahamas resort island’s solar hybrid microgrid

    May 17, 2021

    Solar FlexRack, a division of Northern States Metals and an innovative leader in photovoltaic (PV) mounting and solar tracker solutions, announced that its Fixed Tilt FlexRack Series G3-X racking solution is fully operational for Azimuth Energy’s 1.1 MW solar project on Highbourne Cay in the Bahamas. This robust microgrid, which includes the largest PV array operating in […]

  • Infrastructure Investment 2021 Webinar Wrap-Up

    Can we revitalize Caribbean economies through investment in infrastructure?

    From our Editorial Team

    March 17, 2021

    The arrival of COVID-19 on Caribbean shores threatened to unleash a double-digit recession in a region dependent on air, sea and land transport to connect and grow its economies. After all, the travel and tourism sector contributed nearly US$59 billion to the Caribbean’s gross domestic product in 2019. Over the course of a recent discussion […]

  • UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls for increased climate finance in Caribbean

    February 3, 2021

    UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for 50% of the total share of climate finance to be spent on building resilience and adapting to the effects of a warming world. He added that existing catastrophe-triggered financial instruments such as the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF)  should be scaled up, pointing out that: “For every dollar invested in […]

  • IRAC 2020

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

    January 20, 2021

    By: Kimberly Lewis, Lead Fellow, Advanced Energy Group At the tail end of a notably unprecedented and challenging year, Advanced Energy Group (AEG) and New Energy Events (NEE) virtually hosted the Island Resilience Challenge (IRAC). IRAC is a one-of-a-kind annual workshop focused on identifying key barriers to grid resiliency in the Caribbean and determining actionable […]

  • 2021 is here. We want to know, how can we support you?

    From our Editorial Team

    January 4, 2021

    Few among our number will be sorry to put 2020, an undeniably challenging year, behind us. At the outset, in particular, the prognosis looked grim. Economies across our region were in a state of existential crisis, and unemployment was rife. Clean energy, we feared, might be relegated to the back burner, crowded out in the […]

  • Grid

    National electricity loss reduction plan consultancy in Jamaica

    December 21, 2020

    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 the COVID-19 pandemic.   Source

  • Enel X and Eaton team up on solar and storage microgrid in Puerto Rico

    December 17, 2020

    Enel X and power equipment and management company Eaton will partner on a solar-storage microgrid in Puerto Rico, one of the largest yet built on an island struggling to restructure its hurricane-battered power grid.   Source

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