4th Growth and Resilience Dialogue with Social Partners Presentation

St. Vincent and the Grenadines Overview of Electricity Generation and Policy Environment

Installed Capacity and Potential 1,2

Overview of Generation Expansion Plan

Total Installed Capacity

40.3 MW 33.2 MW 1.4 MW 0.5 MW 0.9 MW 5.7 MW

St. Vincent and Grenadines’ National Energy Transition Strategy (NETS) and Integrated Resource Plan was developed by RMI in 2017.  Details on expansion plan forthcoming

Diesel (utility-owned)

Solar Total

Solar (on-grid customer owned)

Solar (utility-owned)

Hydro (utility-owned)

Renewable Energy Potential

141 - 931 MW

Wind Solar

8 MW

23 MW

Geothermal

100 - 890 MW

Hydro

10 MW

Renewable Energy Support Mechanisms 3, 4

Biomass

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Energy Policy and Energy Action Plan

Finalized

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Renewable Energy Target

60% by 2020

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Independent electricity regulator

No independent regulator

Net metering/net billing

Available

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Interconnection policy/standards

Standard development in progress

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Feed-in-tariff

Available

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Independent power production

Allowed, but no IPPs as of 2019

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Resource mapping

RMI completed an Integrated Resource Plan in 2017 (document not publicly available)

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