Caribbean

Leclanche SA is set to make history in the Caribbean, with a 35.7-MW solar park and 43.6-MWh battery energy storage system. The groundbreaking project will provide up to 30% of St. Kitts' power needs and save SKELEC up to USD 200 million. Get ready for a greener, brighter future in 2025!

When finished, the solar+storage project in St. Kitts as well as Nevis will cover a 3rd of the island's power requirements. Groundbreaking for the project took place in December 2020, and also it needs to prepare following year in 2022.

The Caribbean's leader in renewable energy, Jamaica, is wanting to procure 320MW of renewables this year as part of plans to diversify its energy market.

Swiss energy storage space firm Leclanché has begun on a US$ 70 million solar and storage space microgrid project in St Kitts and also Nevis.

IRENA has actually authorized an MoU with CDF to sustain a transition to a reduced carbon financial growth design in the Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

The government of the Turks and Caicos Islands, utility FortisTCI and the non-profit Clinton Foundation inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Wednesday to kick off the initiatives in the country’s new energy transition strategy.

The Netherlands-administered Caribbean island last year saw almost half its power demand provided by a 4.1 MW solar-plus-storage plant, commissioned in late 2017. The facility generated 6.5 million kWh of the 14.3 million kWh of electricity consumed in the territory in 2018.

The islands of the Caribbean have been focusing on the deployment of storage solutions, minigrids and microgrids in response to the damage their power systems suffered during the 2017 hurricane season. But with the opportunities, there are also challenges.