Regional Cost-Reduction Strategy for Sea Water Air Conditioning

REGIONAL COST-REDUCTION

STRATEGY FOR SWACDEVON O.NIEL GARDNER

Caribbean SWAC Workshop

6 March 2017

St. Michaels, Barbados

The Sixtieth Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic

Development on Energy, held in Georgetown, Guyana on 11-13 January

2016, inter alia:

Endorsed a proposal for prioritization and active pursuit of aCost Reduction Strategy for Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion(OTEC) and Seawater Air-Conditioning (SWAC)

THE BASIS FOR THE STRATEGY

CARICOM BUILDING ENERGY-USE

Goal 1: CARICOM citizens are well aware of the importance of energyconservation, use energy wisely and continuously pursue opportunitiesfor improving their use of energy, with key economic sectors embracingeco-efficiency

Goal 2: Member States have modern energy infrastructure withclean and secure generation capacity, ensuring that energy suppliesare reliably and affordably transported to homes, communities andthe productive sectors on a sustainable basis

Goal 3: The Region is a global example for renewable energy use,providing secure intra-regional energy supplies at internationallycompetitive prices and a small carbon footprint, capable of supportingmedium- and long- term economic growth, social development andenvironmental sustainability

Goal 4: Countries have a well-defined and established governance,institutional, legal and regulatory framework to support the futuredevelopments in the energy sector, underpinned by high levels ofconsultation and citizen participation in this sector

"Reliable, affordable, sustainable provision of energy services matched to the societal and development needs of the

Caribbean Community over time, and based on robust, diverse

energy sources and distribution systems that utilizes appropriate

generation technologies, and equitably provided to all sectors of

the society“

The Vision of

CARICOM Energy

CARICOM ENERGY: THE VISION & GOALS

THE C-SERMS PATHWAY

APPROPRIATE RE OPTIONS, CARICOM

VISIBLE & REPLICABLE

REGION-APPROPRIATE

PROJECTS

NATIONAL

STRATEGY &

ACTIONS

REGIONAL

STRATEGY

generate concrete

experiences

updates

gives orientation

drives

THE APPROACH TO THE C-SERMS

Documented

Renewable Resource

Potential Across All

Member States

Projected Regional

Energy Needs to 2030

Regional Targets

for Renewable

Energy

• Short-term

• Mid-term

• Long-term

Targets for

Member StatesViable Options for

SWAC

Nat’l Demand

Potential

Natl’ Resource

Assessments

Existing National

Energy Strategies

NATIONALIZING THE REGIONAL SWAC STRATEGY

THE PROJECT COST MODEL

“Learning by waiting” v. “Learning by doing”

• Bathymetric Surveys

• Sonar

• LIDAR

• Sub-surface Investigations

• Geological

• Geothermical

• Geophysical

• Siting Investigations

• Demand-centres

• Infrastructure

• Land-use

THE EXPECTED ACTIONS

• SWAC

• OTEC

• Interconnection

National Actors

Regional Actors

Global Actors

HOW TO SUPPORT?

THE FRAMEWORK

CARICOM Energy Unit

C-SERMS Platform

CCREEE

The Future We Want

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”

-Aristotle

DR. DEVON GARDNERProgramme Manager (Energy)

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat

Turkeyen, Georgetown

GUYANA

Phone: +592-222-0001 ext. 3521

Direct: +592-222-0139

Email: [email protected]

Skype: devon.gardner

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