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Nevis Energy Minister – Carlisle Powell

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
MAY 16, 2012 (CUOPM)

Nevis Junior Minister responsible for Energy, Hon. Carlisle Powell, represented the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis at a sustainable energy conference in Barbados at which new actions were announced to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and end poverty.

Mr. Powell, who was accompanied by the Assistant Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Energy, Mr. Paul Lloyd, attended the sustainable energy conference in Barbados, organized by the United Nations and the Government of Barbados last week.

The Barbados Declaration calls for universal access to modern and affordable renewable energy services, while protecting the environment, ending poverty and creating new opportunities for economic growth.

According to the declaration – adopted ahead of next month’s UN Conference on Sustainable Development 20 years after the landmark Rio Earth Summit – 20 Small Island developing States (SIDS) gave voluntary commitments to providing universal access to energy, switching to renewable energy and reducing dependence on fossil fuels.

The meeting also came 18 years after an historic UN summit in Bridgetown first prompted international attention that the world’s environmental challenges, from water scarcity to rising sea levels, were felt first, and hardest, in small island and low-lying coastal developing states, from the Caribbean Sea to the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

The two-day conference brought together more than 100 government leaders, development experts, civil society activists, business executives and UN officials from 39 small island developing states (SIDS).

While stressing there are “commercially feasible options” in many SIDS for providing energy such as wind, solar, geothermal, and oceans energy, the global collection of island and low-lying coastal states called for greater access to clean energy technology.

“However, these technologies must be made accessible, affordable and adaptable to the needs and particular circumstances of SIDS communities,” the Barbados Declaration said.

“In this regard, we strongly urge the international community, particularly developed countries, to ensure the provision of financial resources, technology transfer and capacity building to SIDS,” it added.

The declaration follows the Sustainable Energy for All initiative, launched by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon last September. The initiative seeks to ensure universal access to modern energy services, double the rate of improvement in energy efficiency and double the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix, all by 2030.

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Taiwanese Ambassador – Miguel Tsao

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
April 24, 2012 (SKNIS)

The Government’s efforts at promoting renewable energy in the Federation today received a boost in a brief handing over ceremony held at the Embassy of the Republic of China.

Minister of Public Utilities Hon. Earl Asim Martin was on hand to receive a cheque to fund a pilot project that would see the installation of 100 LED Smart Lights along the Kim Collins Highway and a portion of the Frigate Bay Road.

In giving brief remarks, Head of Taiwanese Mission in St. Kitts and Nevis His Excellency Ambassador Miguel Tsao said as no country can stay away from the tide of the world’s development, Taiwan is happy to share the competitive edge in the development of renewable energy.

“According to preliminary studies from specialists in renewable energy” said Ambassador Tsao, “this kind of light can produce 70% savings of energy and last quite a long time. All the street lights are computerized and each light can be intensified according to the need of the respective area and time.”

The Ambassador also added that although relatively small, there is great benefit to be derived from this pilot project as it is a stepping stone to protecting the environment and leaving a better Federation for our children. The move supports Government’s energy policy of achieving 60% energy generation from green energy sources.

Minister Asim Martin, in accepting the cheque, expressed his thanks to the Ambassador and people of the Republic of China for their understanding in working with the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis to implement the Government’s overall policy on renewable energy.

“We expect that this project will start very shortly, the completion date we expect to be some time in maybe mid to the end of August” said Minister Martin, “so we are looking at between May and August having the Kim Collins highway right up to the Sugars building being lit with LED street lights.”

Minister Martin also said that he has been assured that once this pilot project is successful, similar projects will be implemented in other areas around the country.

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Wind Farm at Maddens Estate, Nevis

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
April 10, 2012 (CUOPM)

St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister, the Right Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas completed a four day working visit and familiarisation tour of India with a breakfast meeting on renewable sources of energy on Saturday.

In opening the meeting with representatives of the renewable energy business community, the St. Kitts and Nevis leader emphasized that “energy consumption from fossil fuel is unsustainable especially in a small developing country that has an abundance of sun and wind throughout the year and great potential in geothermal.”

“Generating electricity from fossil fuel is far too costly for both domestic and commercial consumers and the government is therefore tasked to find credible and urgent solutions,” said Prime Minister Douglas.

He also said the Federation’s solid waste disposal also must be sustainable “given our limited land fill spaces. Solutions which are sustainable have to be found, and there is the ‘urgency of now’ in finding these solutions.”

“We have come to India on a mission to find partners, partners who can help us resolve some of these issues now,” said Prime Minister Douglas.

During the meeting the Right Hon. Prime Minister also discussed the creation of a state of the art modern plant possibly to be located at the current land fill site on the island of St. Kitts to turn solid waste into electricity and other by-products.

It is expected that over the next few weeks the relevant agencies and departments of government will continue to receive and process proposals in these areas of development investment, and will eventually be guided in its decisions with appropriate feasibility studies and in-country discussions with interested parties.

Prime Minister Douglas was accompanied by His Excellency Mr. Kevin Isaac, St. Kitts and Nevis’ High Commissioner in London and Senior Assistant Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister, Ms. Beverly Knight.

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