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The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) is celebrating the Caribbean’s first project preparation facility (PPF) grant with the approval of US$694,000 by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for the Arundo donax Renewable Energy Project in Belize. The grant will…
The Caribbean faces several challenges to its energy sector, which harm the region’s people and potential for economic growth. The Caribbean power generation sector receives 87 percent of its energy production from imported fossil fuels, despite the availability of solar,…
Waste to Energy has significant potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to produce valuable assets. Capturing greenhouse gases like methane on the one side and producing energy in form of electricity and/or heat on the other side is in…
Renewable Energy Caribbean would like to share a major report on bioenergy conducted a few years ago. The report came out of the UNDP project, "Bioenergy in the Caribbean: Supporting Policy Dialogue on Sustainable Energy Services for Small Island Developing States…
A new report from Oregon State University states that renewable energy could see a significant leap forward with improved storage technologies or more efforts to "match" hybrid forms of clean energy systems that provide an overall more steady flow of electricity. Historically, a major…
The Chinese-owned Pan Caribbean Sugar Company Ltd. is powering up its generators in order to use bagasse to produce energy. Over the next 3 years the company is moving to convert into energy, bagasse, the pulp that remains after the extraction of juice…
As we know, most Caribbean islands currently rely on importing fossil fuels at enormous environmental and economic cost. There is a sincere and widespread policy switch now to renewable energy, though many challenges still remain. A noteworthy presentation at CREF 2013 in Aruba…
