{"id":74330,"date":"2022-08-30T12:56:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T16:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carilec.org\/?p=74330"},"modified":"2022-08-30T12:56:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T16:56:30","slug":"dominica-on-track-to-full-renewable-energy-by-2030-says-domlec-chief-operations-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/dominica-on-track-to-full-renewable-energy-by-2030-says-domlec-chief-operations-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominica on track to full renewable energy by 2030 says DOMLEC Chief Operations Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-74332 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DOMLEC-Capture-300x230.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DOMLEC-Capture-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DOMLEC-Capture.png 579w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chief Operations Officer of Dominica Electricity Services Limited (DOMLEC), Ian Ramrattan says he believes that Dominica is on track to solely depend on renewable energy by 2030.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ramrattan was addressing members of the media during a tour of the PADU Power Station at Trafalgar last week.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c We believe that at least for geothermal, it\u2019s quite realistic. The other opportunities of solar PV, the Independent Regulatory Commission (IRC) recently wrote DOMLEC indicating that DOMLEC has been awarded 4.5 megawatts of PV solar plant, so we are looking at an internal level right now,\u201d he said. \u201c We are trying to get that going, but there are a couple [of] things we have to analyze before we confirm that it\u2019s a project we will engage in 100%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ramrattan explained that the system load is about 16 megawatt.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf you talk about 10 megawatts in about 2 years\u2019 time, possibly 4.5 megawatts solar, we have close to 5 -6 megawatts of hydro\u2026but for the most part, I think we are quite on track to establish clean energy by 2030,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Generation Manager of DOMLEC, Dave Stamp said the government\u2019s plans to bring in 10 megawatts of geothermal energy could greatly assist the process.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c Our peak before Maria was about 18, if we bring in 10 megawatts that will bring us closer to the full renewable energy generation,\u201d he stated. \u201cSo I think it is very doable, but it will take a lot of work planning, working together, DOMLEC , Government and other stakeholders, regulators and other agencies to have that done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>SOURCE: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-74334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DOM-News-Online-Capture-300x76.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"38\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DOM-News-Online-Capture-300x76.png 300w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DOM-News-Online-Capture.png 407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Operations Officer of Dominica Electricity Services Limited (DOMLEC), Ian Ramrattan says he believes that Dominica is on track to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.svg","month_date":"Aug","day_date":"30","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}