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FIVE-YEAR UPDATE
WRB ENERGY’s 28MWp Content Solar Plant, Jamaica

• 44 GWh of Electricity Produced Annually

• 3 Million Gallons of Imported Fuel and 34,000 tons
of CO Displaced Annually
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WRB Energy developed the 28 MWp Content Solar site in Clarendon, Jamaica.

SO WHY ISN’T THERE MORE RENEWABLE FIRST AND FOREMOST, CONTAIN COSTS
ENERGY PRODUCED IN THE CARIBBEAN The reality is that most small Caribbean island
ENERGY SECTOR, AND WHY AREN’T THERE nations lack economies of scale to absorb the high
MORE RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS IN costs and complexities of developing relatively small
THE PIPELINE? renewable installations as compared to those in
Having worked in the region for more than three larger, more developed countries. With relatively
decades developing renewable energy resources smaller populations, economies, and electricity
and operating utilities in Grenada, Jamaica, Dominica, demand, there are simply fewer kilowatt-hours
and Turks and Caicos, as well as in Latin America, produced over which to amortize the up-front
WRB Energy has a perspective on the challenges investment expenses cost-effectively. However, as
that hinder increased renewable energy generation the prices for renewable energy equipment continue
in the Caribbean. Our first-hand knowledge and to decrease and technologies advance, solar (in
experience on the ground can help shed some particular), along with battery energy storage, wind,
light on overcoming the obstacles to increasing and geothermal are increasingly more viable, least-
sustainable clean energy production. cost options for diversified energy portfolios.

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