EKWA Consulting leads Institutional, Technical and Economic feasibility study for the development and implementation of tidal and wave energy projects in the Eastern Caribbean region

The INTERREG Caribbean renewable marine energy (RME) Project is a cross-border regional development program to promote renewable energy, increase the share of electricity mix from renewable sources, and achieve energy independence in the Eastern Caribbean Region.   The Caribbean remains heavily and almost entirely dependent on costly fossil fuels, and despite its abundance and potential, renewable energy still plays a minor role. INTERREG Caribbean recognizes that the share of renewables in the Region’s energy mix is below the potential.   Through the RME Project, INTERREG Caribbean is working to harness the potential for renewable marine energy and promote blue economy in the Region. 

EKWA Consulting and its partners Hill & Hill, Antigua & Barbuda, David Simmons & Associates LTD, Saint Lucia, YS EMD and Meteolien, France, were awarded a subsidy to fund partially the “Institutional, Technical and Economic feasibility study for the development and implementation of tidal and wave energy projects in the Eastern Caribbean Region”  under the European Development Fund Eastern Caribbean Region monitored by the Region Guadeloupe within the INTERREG Caribbean program (2016 – 2020)

The strategic goals set by INTERREG Caribbean for the development of the region are as follows:

• Support the development of renewable energies in the Eastern Caribbean
• Increase the share of renewable energies in the electricity mix of territories for greater energy autonomy.

EKWA Consulting and its partners developed a roadmap on the potentials and the methodologies for the development of tidal and wave energy projects, including proposals for regional pilot projects based on the outcomes of the study.