If the ongoing work of West Indies Power Holdings BV (WIPH) continues to progress according to plan, the tiny island of Nevis, with a population of 12,000 and long known for its numerous hot springs, will be the first truly ‘green’ island in the Caribbean.
WIPH, an Independent [...]

The government of Dominica signed a transnational agreement today with the French Caribbean islands for the execution of a project under the EU-funded “Geothermal Energy in the Caribbean Islands” project.
The project, which builds upon the results of a 2005 OAS-funded study, proposes to demonstrate the [...]

World crude oil prices surged past US$112 today following a report by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) that showed US-held crude oil and refined fuels stocks at lower than expected levels.
In its weekly inventory report, the EIA reported that crude stocks fell by 3.2 million barrels in the [...]

In the face of soaring crude oil prices, OPEC’s Chakib Khelil on Tuesday reiterated OPEC’s position that the high prices are not due to low supply to the market, and that there is no need for an increase in OPEC output to influence prices.
Khelil, who is [...]

COMMENTARY by Herbert A Samuel
The facts about greenhouse gas emissions implicate the power sector in a large part of the problem of climate change: the global power sector is the largest single emitter of carbon dioxide, the most important of the human-influenced greenhouse gases.  For the Caribbean [...]