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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