Renewable energy sector development in the Caribbean: Current trends and lessons from history

Decision-Making for Risk Management in Sustainable Renewable Energy Facilities: A Case Study in the Dominican Republic

“…Caribbean states adjacent to the Dominican Republic (DR) are showing interest in the development of a regional sustainable energy policy and measures that can help protect member states from volatile oil markets, promoting the use of their own resources [6]. Furthermore, in the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Copenhagen (2009) and Cancun (2010), the advanced economies committed to providing developing countries US $30 billion in financial and technical aid for climate change adaptation and mitigation for 2012, and US $100 billion annually by 2020.…”

Diffusion of renewable energy technologies: The need for policy in Colombia

“…In this sense, Shirley and Kammen [30] explain the importance of favourable policy, designed according to the particulars of the countries concerned. Some of the regulatory framework for renewables in Latin American countries includes Renewable Portfolio Standard or RPS (for example, Peru), targets (such as in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Nicaragua and Uruguay) and a combination of RPS, targets and a renewable energy law (as in Chile and Mexico) [2].…”

Renewable technologies for generation systems in islands and their application to Cozumel Island, Mexico

“…Wind power obtained in AErø Island, Denmark, in 2001, 20.5 GWh was supported by 7.2 MW wind farm, accounting for 57% of the island's total electricity [9]. For the islands in [9] [10] [11] [12], wind power has been considered for electricity production: a) Cape, 3,800 kW eolic turbines; b) USA, Hawaii and Puerto Rico, where Oahu counts with 600 MW, Lanai with 600 MW and Molokai with 400 MW, and for St. Thomas, Tortola, St. Croix and Puerto Rico, 3.7 GW of wind potential could be exploited; c) Anguilla, where a comparative simulation of 6 wind turbines was made of 1.25 MW (Falcon) and 6 of 0.75 MW (Unison) was performed to a total of 5.95 GWh/y and 3.3 GWh/y respectively, and; d) Curacao, where in the 80's the 5% was 3 MW and in 2000 was 9 MW, from the 226 MW installed, and in Aruba, 30 MW was 13% and will add 30 MW of wind for a total of 149 MW installed. In Block Island, in Rhode Island, USA, five 6 MW wind turbines array were installed interconnected with a 34.5 kV submarine cable from site to mainland.…”

“…It is considered as renewable energy if the water cycle is a continuous cycle [14]. For example, the Caribbean area [12] has 32.8 MW installed and 4% of its total consumed energy is through hydro energy. Suriname and Trinidad & Tobago have a system close to 4.7% from renewable energy sources.…”