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Private sector in Panama issues call for integration of renewable energies
October 16, 2018
The Society for Engineers and Architects of Panama (SPIA) called for the Panamanian government to further promote the use of clean renewable energies. The importance of the integration of solar and wind energies in building and development projects was argued during the XVI International Congress for Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, and Industry. The theme of […]
Dominican Republic to commission 240 MW of wind and solar in coming months
August 16, 2018
The Dominican Republic Electrical Industry Association (ADIE) has announced this week that 240.3 MW will be connected to its national grid in the coming months. This boom of new renewable projects will see five large scale renewable projects commissioned, which include 183 MW of wind and 58 MW of solar capacity. The total investment of […]
Progress continues for 100 MW Cuban wind park
July 5, 2018
The Cuban city of Las Tunas will be home for Herradura 1 and Herradura 2, a vast wind complex, expected to begin construction in July. Chinese suppliers are providing cranes, drilling and excavating equipment and construction is finally ready to start later this week. Omilton Rodriguez Rivas, Director of Investments for the Electric Company of […]
Local investors to acquire 21 MW wind farm in Costa Rica
July 2, 2018
MPC Caribbean Clean Energy Fund and ANSA McAL are about to acquire a 21 MW wind farm in Tilaran, Costa Rica. While the wind farm has been in operations since 2015, the project has a potential of growing to a 40 MW wind farm. This is not the first renewable project to be acquired by […]
Vestas to enter Panama’s renewable market
June 26, 2018
Vestas, the Spanish wind turbine company, will supply equipment to the 66 MW Toabré wind park, owned by Elecnor. The country is increasingly investing in the renewables sector as it has a goal to produce half of its electricity from renewables by 2050. Vestas is present in over 79 different countries and this order highlights […]
Puerto Rico Senate approves GHG reduction bill, will spur growth of renewables and efficiency
June 25, 2018
A new climate change bill, with a focus on energy reform, has just been passed in the Upper Chamber of Puerto Rico’s government. Senator Larry Seilhamer, the lead author of the bill, developed measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% of 1990 levels by the year 2035. The measure establishes policy to […]
Haiti to build hybrid solar/wind power plant
August 23, 2017
Earlier this month, Haitian leaders gathered at the construction site of what will be a 160 kW hybrid diesel/wind/solar power plant – a technology first for Haiti. President Jovenel Moïse, accompanied by his Special Energy Advisor, Evenson Calixte, and the Member of Parliament for the constituency, went to the commune of Irois (Department of Grand’Anse), […]
Battery energy storage coming to Martinique wind farm
August 9, 2017
Nidec ASI will be installing 5MW / 5MWh of battery energy storage at a utility-scale wind farm on the French island territory of Martinique, aimed at stabilising and maximising the flow of energy onto the grid. The Grand Rivière wind project, a 14MW wind farm on the Caribbean island, which comprises seven wind turbines of […]
Barbados Light & Power moves towards agreement for wind farm
May 12, 2017
Barbados is staying on track for a 2018 construction timeframe of the 10 MW wind farm in Lamberts, St. Lucy, according to a speech delivered this week by managing director of Barbados Light & Power, Roger Blackman. BL&P and Barbados Farms Limited are in the process of finalizing the terms of the agreement for the St […]