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Editorial
Foreword
30th Anniversary Edition
- Cletus Kennedy Bertin, Ph.D.,
Executive Director of CARILEC
SPOTLIGHT
Energy Sector Reform: Innovative utility Energy Resilience: collective and coordinated
business models and legislative and regulatory regional efforts are geared towards the design,
measures are emerging to facilitate and development and deployment of resilient
accelerate the transitioning and transformation of solutions in the energy sector for which financing
the electric energy sector. remains a significant challenge.
Energy System Investments: financing Management of Change and Innovation:
mechanisms that constitute a shift in the capacity building in change management and
traditional mix of energy investment instruments innovation adoption and diffusion, in tandem
are being developed to support the growth and with strategic thinking, strategic planning and
diversity of the regional energy supply and energy strategy implementation is presently being
related services. addressed directly by the CARILEC Secretariat
across the electric utility sector.
Collaboration: Increased collaboration among
energy stakeholders in the Caribbean is Artificial intelligence (AI), fifth
progressing and fueling the development of generation wireless networks (5G),
dynamic strategies and plans to generate Blockchain technology and Cyber
relevant solutions for the region’s energy issues. Security are powerful potential game-changers,
representing both opportunities and challenges
for many industries, and have significant
implications for the energy sector in the region.
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