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CARILEC /ANNUAL REPORT 2022 a major awareness and public education initiative to educate electricity customers (particularly those in low-income

households) on energy efficiency and conservation measures. The CARILEC Energy Efficiency and Resiliency Project
(CAREEP), as it is called is now underway in six Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs); namely Anguilla, British Virgin
Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, Sint Maarten and Turks and Caicos Islands.

The learning outcomes of the project are particularly important to the Secretariat as we aim to ensure that both
customers and electric utilities can benefit from such information. It is also a great opportunity for CARILEC’s Learning
and Development and Marketing and Member Services departments to collaborate on an initiative; therefore,
bringing increased expertise to the table. CARILEC is indeed grateful to RESEMBID and the World Bank Global Facility
for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) for their general support of this project, as well as Expertise France for its
implementation, and the European Union (EU), the project’s funding agency.

Overall, it has been a tremendously productive year for CARILEC, and this includes its continued membership growth.
The Association increased its membership total to 117, with the addition of one Member Utility and nine Associate
Members. CARILEC also added an Individual membership category to its membership suite, offering lifetime/honourary,
independent consultant/industry practitioner and academic lecturers, researchers and students membership
packages to interested persons, with a range of unmatched benefits. It is my hope that this additional category
facilitates the sustained growth of the CARILEC family, throughout the years to come.

In closing, I wish to say a special thank you to our esteemed development partners whom we collaborated with in 2022,
some of whom I may have mentioned previously. I must express my utmost gratitude to these institutions for their
unwavering belief in CARILEC’s mandate within the electric energy sector, and commitment to assisting us in fulfilling it.

In 2023, it is my hope that CARILEC continues to push the needle in achieving greater resiliency and sustainability in
the regional energy landscape. This collective effort requires even greater collaboration, capacity building, knowledge
sharing, and technical expertise. Therefore, now more than ever, we need to form partnerships and alliances with like-
minded institutions which are dedicated to this goal. I am confident that together we can achieve so much more while
we seek to positively transform the lives of the Caribbean people.

Leroy A.E. Abraham

Leroy A.E. Abraham
British Virgin Islands
Electricity Corp.

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