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Photo voltaic and battery storage techniques present vitality entry on and off the grid to make sure dependable electrical energy flows even throughout important disruptions.
Roseau Valley, Dominica — The Island of Dominica got here one step nearer towards its objective of changing into a completely climate-resilient nation with two new photo voltaic microgrids. The Dominica Ministry of Schooling, with assist from the Clara Lionel Basis (CLF) and RMI, based as Rocky Mountain Institute, has formally introduced the addition of solar energy and battery vitality storage techniques to 2 main faculties — Morne Prosper and Paix Bouche — which each function hurricane shelters.
The microgrids present 10 kilowatts of solar energy and 76 kilowatt-hours of battery vitality storage to ship dependable vitality throughout regular working hours and through main disruptions corresponding to hurricanes.
The Dominica Colleges Microgrid Undertaking consisted of the rebuilding of Morne Prosper Major College and Paix Bouche Major College, which have been severely broken by Hurricane Maria in 2017, and the set up of resilient vitality techniques on the faculties to supply secure studying environments for his or her college students and dependable hurricane shelters for the communities.
CLF and RMI offered funding and technical help for this challenge in shut partnership with area people members. This included partaking the communities to construct lasting data of the direct advantages of photo voltaic and batter vitality storage techniques. The Dominica Colleges Microgrid Undertaking serves as a proof level for the way photo voltaic and storage techniques can protect group vibrancy by bolstering vitality resilience amid intensifying climate-induced hurricanes.
“We hope that by spotlighting this momentous event, and thru the regional consideration this challenge has already acquired (on the 2023 Caribbean Renewable Vitality Discussion board [CREF] awards), this will probably be a catalyst for investing in larger initiatives targeted on local weather and vitality resilience, each nationally and all through the Caribbean area,” stated Ije Ikoku Okeke, managing director of RMI’s Catalytic Local weather Capital (C3) and World South applications.
“One in every of our main objectives was to showcase how profitable stakeholder collaboration can assist the constructing of a extra resilient surroundings and scaling clear vitality,” stated Krystle Francis, who serves as director of applications (Caribbean) for CLF. “And never simply in Dominica, but additionally within the broader area. It’s our hope that the challenge has the flexibility to direct extra focus to different entities for funding of comparable tasks all through the Caribbean.”
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About RMI: RMI, based in 1982 as Rocky Mountain Institute, is an impartial nonprofit that transforms world vitality techniques via market-driven options to align with a 1.5°C future and safe a clear, affluent, zero-carbon future for all. We work on this planet’s most crucial geographies and have interaction companies, policymakers, communities, and NGOs to establish and scale vitality system interventions that may minimize greenhouse fuel emissions by at the very least 50 p.c by 2030. RMI has places of work in Basalt and Boulder, Colorado; New York Metropolis; Oakland, California; Washington, D.C.; Nigeria; and Beijing. Discover extra info at www.rmi.org and comply with us on LinkedIn @RMI.
About CLF: The Clara Lionel Basis (CLF) was based in 2012 by Robyn “Rihanna” Fenty in honor of her grandparents, Clara and Lionel Braithwaite. CLF invests in local weather justice and local weather resilience initiatives within the Caribbean & United States and helps communities put together for and stand up to pure disasters.
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