The Renewable Energy Industry in CARIFORUM Countries

RENEWABLE ENERGY INDUSTRY STAKEHOLDER ASSESSMENT

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

3.15 | TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

sectors are petroleum products, agriculture and tourism which are concentrated in Tobago. The Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Company (T&TEC) is owned by the Government and has an installed capacity of 2019 MW with a negligible amount of RE capacity. There is an increasing interest in large scale RE generation but no involvement in customer implementations.

Trinidad and Tobago is an dependent twin island republic spanning an area of 5130 square Kilometres. It had a population of 1,394,973 people as of 2019 (UN, 2019). Its main economic

3.15.1 | LEAD GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES

The Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries is the lead ministry with responsibility for the energy portfolio in Trinidad and Tobago. It works closely with the ministries responsible for planning and development which is responsible for the NDC, the public utilities which is responsible for energy generation, works and transport, Bureau of Standards, education, local government and rural development for small projects to raise awareness. There is coordination between these stakeholders using a steering committee or project appointed committees. There is an energy policy and an action plan, but they do not address RE specifically. While the existing policy caters for the connection of utility scale IPPs, there is not yet policy which considers the entire energy sector including RE. Some work is on-going to facilitate interconnection of small

RE systems, tariffs for interconnection and the supporting regulations.

Targets for EE and RE generation are documented only in their NDC and other political presentations. Some work has commenced in relation to facilitating interconnection between the grid and distributed RE system, but again nothing has been completed and interconnection remains illegal. The ministry

The Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries is the lead ministry with responsibility for the energy portfolio in Trinidad and Tobago.

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The Renewable Energy Industry in CARIFORUM Countries