Clean Energy Campaign

Working toward a greener, cleaner and healthier BVI

ENERGY in the BVI

• Expensive• Unreliable• 100% Imported• Emissions

Problems

Oil Spills at Pockwood Pond

• 2009: 2000 gallons of diesel spilled• 2004: 200 gallons of oil spilled - more than

5,250 feet of coastline affected - numerous dead marine species found.

1978 electricity law restricted renewable

energy

Solutions

Government initiatives• Legislation was amended March 2015• Comprehensive campaign to reduce energy

consumption – LED’s & solar street lights• Working on renewable energy regulations to

promote grid tie• Solar water heaters and solar air

conditioners encouraged

Best practice in the BVI

Peter Island

• 70% of its power through wind turbines

Cooper Island

• 70% of power through solar panels• Goal of 95% using wind & solar

Green VI’s role

1. Advocate for renewable energy 2. Establish Partnerships3. Education and Awareness4. Demonstration projects5. Watchdog

What has Green VI done?

1: Advocacy

Petition • 1500 signatures• hard and electronic copies

Draft legislation• Harneys drafted subsidiary regulations (pro bono)• Handed over to Government Feb 2012• Harneys offered to assist government with amendment (pro-bono)• New legislation was approved March 2015

Clean Energy Campaign

Petition comments• “No more Natures Little Secret if nature is

destroyed. Understand WHY people come there and preserve the beauty...learn from industrialized nations what they have ruined!”

• “One of the best situated places in the world for renewable energy”

• “As regular visitors to these beautiful islands we would love to see as much done as possible to preserve the the natural beauty of the BVI.”

Petition comments ….

Green Energy Is Da Way To Go!!

2. Establish Parnerships

Government

Schools

Non Profit Organisation

Business community

Broader community

Established Partners

3: Education &

awareness

• Educate the community about climate change • Link to international awareness raising events

Adverts run by partners

Adverts run by partners

4. Demonstration projects

Green VI’s Glass Studio

Used veggie oil becomes biofuel

Using biofuel to create art

Energy audits conducted for 3 schools

School retrofitted with LED lights

What’s next?

1.Green VI Advocacy in 2016

• Hand over incentive recommendations to encourage cost effectiveness of renewables

• Partner with BVIEC to develop grid tie regulations and procedures

2.Establish new partnerships

North Sound

Sewage & organics becomeenergy

3. DemonstrationAnaerobic Digester

4. Demonstration Grid Tie Pilot for School

5.Watchdog• Amend current legislation that restricts the

implementation of renewable energy

• Support educational and awareness programmes

• Set targets for clean renewable energy for the BVI

• Exempt clean, renewable energy technologies from import and customs duties

• Permit and support grid tie pilot projects based on solar, wind & anaerobic digestion

• Create an economically viable model for clean, renewable energy that can include rebates, tax incentives, feed in tariffs and/ or net metering

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What do the next generation say?

• Movie Grade 5