Hundreds of Teachers Receive SBA Support at the CXC Online Teacher Training Workshop
“We want to be able to compete in terms of moving our country in the green technology way and we need to be able to learn how to teach research.” So said Mr. A. [...]
Securing our Sustainable Energy Future Through Power Sector Resilience Planning
Sustainable energy is crucial to regional development. This has only become clearer as we work to recover from the effects of the ongoing pandemic. A future in which the Caribbean region is no longer [...]
Guyana Leads the Region with IUS Pilot Programme Launch
Guyana is one step further along in its transition towards a green economy with its participation in the Regional Integrated Utility Service (IUS) pilot programme. With technical support from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale [...]
Bringing Resilience Planning to the Forefront with Integrated Resource and Resilience Planning
Energy is at the heart of our daily lives. We rely on a stable and sustainable energy supply to support the majority of our activities, from ensuring our children’s attendance at digital school to [...]
The Project Preparation Facility: Getting Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Projects Ready to Shine
The Caribbean region has an abundance of renewable natural resources that can play key roles in helping us follow the path set out in the Caribbean Sustainable Energy Roadmap and Strategy (C-SERMS). From solar [...]
Everything Energy at Your Fingertips in the CARICOM Energy Knowledge Hub
The journey towards a sustainable, climate-resilient and renewable energy future requires careful planning and sound decision-making resting on a foundation of high-quality data. For the Caribbean region — an area spanning almost three million [...]
A Passion for Policy Makes All the Difference
Policy and regulation development play a foundational role in the kind of meaningful change the Technical Assistance Programme for Sustainable Energy in the Caribbean (TAPSEC) is seeking to support throughout the region. Before the [...]
End-to-End Capacity Development at the Core of Sustainable Development Goals
Capacity-building is at the heart of any development initiative. In order to adapt to an ever-changing world, a nation (and a region) must develop and strengthen the skills of its people as well as [...]
A Comprehensive Approach to Our Sustainable Energy Goals
In an area as culturally diverse and geographically expansive as the Caribbean, any regional initiative pursuing a meaningful impact requires a strong understanding of the unique contexts and constraints of each society therein. This [...]
Preparing for the Realities of Climate Change with the Regional Emergency Response Strategy & Action Plan
In September 2017, Dominica, Saint Croix and Puerto Rico were devastated by Hurricane Maria, the worst natural disaster in the recorded history of those islands. The deadly Category 5 storm destroyed more than 90% [...]
Greening the Caribbean Curriculum
The people who will ultimately fulfil CARICOM’s sustainable development goals are currently sitting in classrooms across the Caribbean. Those students will soon be developing and implementing clean energy policies and renewable energy programmes that [...]
Renewable Energy Academic Excellence at the New Microgrid Training Centre
The success of the Caribbean's shift to sustainability depends on the people currently preparing to lead the way. These budding scientists and engineers are currently pursuing tertiary-level studies in areas such as environmental physics, [...]
The Region’s Energy Future in Good Hands
The Region’s Energy Future in Good Hands As an important component of TAPSEC’s commitment to regional capacity development, the Regional Energy Apprenticeship Programme (REAP) provided young professionals with opportunities to gain valuable technical expertise [...]
The UWI Mona: Leading the Charge Towards Regional Energy Sustainability in Tertiary Education
Tertiary educational institutions have a critical part to play in the regional transition towards sustainable energy. As the portal through which burgeoning energy professionals step into the regional energy sector and the main means through [...]
Creating the Caribbean’s Sustainable Energy Future Through Education
Environmental education is a vital part of creating the changes that will shift the Caribbean towards sustainable energy development. So says Dr. Paulette Bynoe, Deputy Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research at [...]
Gathering Essential Information for CARICOM’s Sustainable Energy Future with Help from OLADE
We live in the information age. At a time when information technology sits at the core of worldwide development and when access to information directly impacts a nation’s ability to provide opportunities for its citizenry, [...]
CXC: Leading the Educational Shift Towards Sustainability with TAPSEC’s Support
The ideal Caribbean person is someone who lives in harmony with their physical and social environment. This is the perspective of Latoya Wedderburn-Rose, a manager in the Syllabus and Curriculum Development Department at the Caribbean [...]
Pursuing Regional Sustainability Through Energy Efficiency with CROSQ
A standard is only as strong as the agreement on which it rests and widely agreed-upon quality standards help business to flow freely within the Caribbean and throughout the world. An awareness of this fact [...]
A Commitment to Collaboration at the Heart of CARILEC’s Mission
For more than 30 years, the Caribbean Electric Utility Services Corporation (CARILEC) has been at the forefront of regional energy development. From its beginning in 1989 as a nine-member electric utilities modernisation project to its [...]
A Regional Sustainable Energy Transition For Us, By Us
The success of the regional sustainable energy transition depends on more than the availability of renewable energy resources and energy-efficient technology. It requires more than experts ready and able to lead the charge. While these [...]
Partnering to Develop the Dominican Republic’s Sustainable Energy Future
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy sources are the keys to unlocking the seventh United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), which calls for universal access to “affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy”. Through its Ministry of [...]
CCREEE spotlights solar integration
The Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (CCREEE’s) continues to edify regional energy professionals through a virtual capacity building session on Solar Integration. This session was a part of an Integrated Resource and [...]
Innovative Approaches in Tertiary Education – The Case of the Master’s Degree in Sustainable Energy and Climate Change at the University of Technology, Jamaica
The Regional Universities Networking (RUN) Webinar will enhance the engagement of the Network with each other and with external stakeholders, by providing a space for the exchange of ideas and facilitate collaborative dialogue. This RUN [...]
Graduates laud LEAP training programme
After eight weeks of intense instruction and practice, 123 energy professionals from 14 CARICOM member States graduated from the globally recognised Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP) training programme. Upon completion, many of the graduates describe [...]
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