Caribbean Export OUTLOOK 2016 - 2017

Clearing the Hurdles

When the 10 Megawatt (MW) geothermal power plant comes online in 2018, Nevis will become the greenest place on planet earth with fully 100 per cent of its electrical power supplied by renewables.

turbine that turns an electrical generator to produce that energy.

The Honourable Mark Brantley, St. Kitts and Nevis Minister of Foreign Affairs, has been closely involved inmoving forwardwith theNevis geothermal project, and he expects it to be a game- changer for the island, significantly beneficial for St. Kitts and eventually a source of clean, affordable energy it can export to neighbouring Eastern Caribbean nations. According toMinister Brantley, “Nevis is a front- runner for geothermal development regionally and we feel that this project has the potential to transform the island. Already with an existing

wind farm and a soon-to-be-commissioned waste-to-energy plant, Nevis will by 2016 have one third of its baseline power needs supplied by renewables. When the 10 Megawatt (MW) geothermal power plant comes online in 2018, Nevis will become the greenest place on planet earthwith fully 100 per cent of its electrical power supplied by renewables. This is consistent with the aspirations of the island to become amodel for sustainable energy development globally.”

And while the Nevis geothermal project is by no means the only example of these sister islands embracing alternative sources of energy – St. Kitts’ RLB International Airport is powered by a solar farm at the end of the runway, another solar farm is about to start production, some of the federation’s street lighting is solar, Nevis has a solidly established wind farm and many of the country’s biggest businesses are increasingly green – it’s far and away the most important.

It’s no coincidence, by the way, that the plant will have an initial target output of 10MW; that’s

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