NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (Might 8, 2025) – Premier of Nevis and Minister of Vitality within the Nevis Island Administration (NIA), the Honourable Mark Brantley, delivered a presentation as we speak on the seventeenth annual Caribbean Renewable Vitality Discussion board (CREF 2025) in Miami, the place he mentioned the development of the St. Kitts and Nevis Geothermal Vitality Mission and the broader renewable vitality choices out there to Caribbean nations.
Talking throughout a high-level “Deep Dive” Workshop hosted by Exergy Worldwide underneath the theme “Is Geothermal Energy Lastly Inside Attain?”, Premier Brantley emphasised the vital function geothermal vitality can play in serving to small island creating states transition to wash, dependable, and impartial vitality techniques.
He highlighted the continued work on Nevis to harness its wealthy geothermal useful resource, noting the challenge’s potential to profit not solely the island however the wider Federation and area.
The workshop shaped a part of the broader CREF Ministerial Session titled “Various Pathways to Vitality Transition within the Caribbean,” which explored how island nations are shaping vitality methods that replicate their distinctive circumstances. The session addressed how shifting geopolitical situations, unstable oil costs, and the growing curiosity in Liquified Pure Fuel are influencing nationwide vitality planning and outlined key renewable vitality milestones achieved within the area over the previous yr.
CREF 2025 brings collectively over 500 attendees, together with policymakers, utilities, builders, financiers, and key establishments such because the Inter-American Growth Financial institution (IDB), The World Financial institution, Caribbean Growth Financial institution (CDB), Caribbean Export Growth Company (Carib-Export), and the Caribbean Centre for Renewable Vitality and Vitality Effectivity (CCREEE).
This yr’s discussion board, which takes place Might 7-9, is concentrated on how the area can remodel urgency into motion. The agenda contains discussions on renewable vitality capability, battery storage, funding pipelines, interconnection, regulatory reform, and scaling nationwide vitality methods. One of many occasion’s highlights is the launch of the International Renewable Vitality Champions Initiative by REN21, which promotes world collaboration on renewables throughout authorities, business, academia, and civil society.
Premier Brantley’s contribution to CREF 2025 reinforces the management function that St. Kitts and Nevis is taking part in in regional renewable vitality development and the island’s readiness to maneuver from dialogue to improvement.
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