The Caribbean Electric is a bi-annual online trade journal offering an up-close view of the dynamic energy landscape of the Caribbean through the lens and expert analysis of Caribbean electric utility industry practitioners and specialists.

These perspectives unfold in the ferment of long-range experience, new ideas, research and discovery, innovation and emerging technologies shaping the Caribbean agenda for sustainable energy.

The journal caters to industry insiders –governmental and corporate decision-makers, utility operators, vendors, industry professionals and workers, journalists, researchers, sustainable development professionals and career seekers.

CARILEC welcomes for consideration papers on issues and developments relevant to the Caribbean electric utility industry value chain. Papers /articles must offer a fresh and innovative perspective to current issues from previously published content.
The articles may be reviews, tutorials, analyses with supporting data or facts, case studies, research results of in-depth surveys or technological advances, and must be written in an engaging, informative manner.

Utility of the Future

• Technologies and best practices for smart and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI).
• Innovative and efficient solutions for customer billing and customer management.
• International best-practices and experiences for alternative energy services (energy management, energy efficiency, e-mobility, or distributed energy supply) including benefits for utilities and key success factors.
• Integrated digital solutions for power generation, transmission and distribution in the Caribbean.

Fuel Price Development in the Caribbean power sector

• Impact of current fuel price development on customer liquidity, energy prices and affordability (including socio-economic and socio-cultural impacts).
• Impact of current fuel price development on electricity demand and consumption patterns
• Technologies to increase fuel efficiency in power generation.
• Technology and implementation mechanisms to increase energy efficiency for generation, transmission, and distribution as well as on the demand-side.
• Recommendations and examples for cost-efficient fuel procurement.

Increasing the Share of Intermittent Renewable Energies (RE) in the Caribbean

• Status quo and trends in “state of the art” RE technologies such as solar PV, wind, hydro, and geothermal power and bioenergy.
• Innovative RE technologies suitable for the Caribbean such as marine RE, offshore wind and PV etc.
• Innovative technology solutions for generation forecasting, balancing, flexible generation, storage, etc.
• Update on costs for RE generation (globally) and comparison with Caribbean context and reality.
• Best-practices and experiences regarding related regulatory frameworks, grid management and project development

E-Mobility and the Future Role of Utilities and Network Operators

• Benefits, challenges, success factors, best-practices, and suitable models for e-mobility in the Caribbean.
• Business-models for utilities to provide energy services for e-mobility.
• Utilization of e-mobility infrastructure for RE expansion and integration of intermittent RE (technology solutions, best-practices, international experiences, and recommendations for the Caribbean).
• EV-charging: Suitable standards and technologies for the Caribbean and how they differ

Emergency Response and Grid Restoration

• Best-practices and lessons learnt from previous (responses to) natural and climate disasters and heavy weather events.
• Outlook on occurrence and impact of future climate hazards and natural disasters in the Caribbean.
• Utility planning strategies for faster grid restoration after natural disasters
• Utilizing smart grid technologies to minimize interruptions from extreme weather events.
• Building-back-better: Technology solutions, examples and recommendations for future disaster response and restoration.

Solutions, Challenges and Recommendations on Cybersecurity

• Digital solutions, best-practices and lessons learnt around the topic of Cybersecurity.
• Developing a robust organizational security policy for ITC.
• Developing effective grid security strategies and procedures for growing smart grid technologies

Writers may also opt to select any other relevant topic that observes case-studies, or addresses a solution, or challenge for the Caribbean power sector.

Papers in the Caribbean Electric (CE) Journal are read by engineers, managers, technicians, administrators, regulators, investors and policy makers whose interests usually extend well beyond their own specialties. Submissions must be accessible to the non-specialist reader as well as the expert. They should always contain adequate background and tutorial information.

• Indicate your interest in submitting an article to the Industry Journal by October 31, 2024. To do so, send an email to [email protected], copied to [email protected] with your name, company, title of your article and a short synopsis of what the article will cover.
• Submissions for the Caribbean Electric Journal should be 1000 –3000 words, 1-5 pages in length and written in English.
• All submissions should be shared in MS Word, and PDF Format.
• Any supporting images should be attached as high-resolution jpeg, or png files.
• A copy of the submission, complete with original illustrations, should be submitted to [email protected] and copied to [email protected].