The Renewable Energy Industry in CARIFORUM Countries
COUNTRY INDICATOR ANALYSIS
4.5.9 | INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL SECTORS
The industrial and commercial sectors represent all other business activities not specifically highlighted previously. As a result, many of the interventions and plans presented previously, overlap with this sector. Included in industrial and commercial sector consumption are areas of manufacturing, agriculture, tourism and businesses. Trinidad reported a 70% contribution from this sector which include all business activities (Ministry of Energy, 2011). Given this approach to reporting under this sector, the broadest approach to capture the concerns of this sector is to focus on energy consumption in buildings since this is a feature of all businesses. The alternative approach is to focus on the specific operations which have high energy intensities. E.g. Bauxite in Jamaica. The distribution for the region by country is shown in figure 4.13 and table 4.18.
COMMERCIAL VS. RESIDENTIAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION
80%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
Haiti
Belize
Guyana
Jamaica
St. Lucia
Grenada
Bahamas
Barbados
Dominica
Suriname
St. Kitts & Nevis
Trinidad & Tobago
Antigua & Barbuda
Dominican Republic
St. Vincent & the Grenadines
COMMERCIAL CONSUMPTION
RESIDENTIAL CONSUMPTION
Figure 4.14 | Industrial & Commercial Sectors vs Residential Sector Consumption
The Renewable Energy Industry in CARIFORUM Countries
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