Green VI's Clean Energy Campaign

1. Clean Energy Campaign
Working toward a greener, cleaner and
healthier BVI

2. ENERGY
in the BVI

3. • Expensive
• Unreliable
• 100% Imported
• Emissions
Problems

4. Oil Spills at Pockwood Pond
• 2009: 2000 gallons of diesel spilled
• 2004: 200 gallons of oil spilled - more than 5,250
feet of coastline affected - numerous dead marine
species found.

5. 1978 electricity law
restricted renewable
energy

6. Solutions

7. Government initiatives
• Legislation was amended March 2015
• Comprehensive campaign to reduce energy
consumption – LED’s & solar street lights
• Working on renewable energy regulations to
promote grid tie
• Solar water heaters and solar air conditioners
encouraged

8. Best practice in the BVI
Peter Island
• 70% of its power through wind
turbines
Cooper Island
• 70% of power through solar panels
• Goal of 95% using wind & solar

9. Green VI’s role
1. Advocate for renewable energy
2. Establish Partnerships
3. Education and Awareness
4. Demonstration projects
5. Watchdog

10. What has Green VI done?

11. 1: Advocacy
Petition
• 1500 signatures
• hard and electronic copies
Draft legislation
• Harneys drafted subsidiary regulations (pro bono)
• Handed over to Government Feb 2012
• Harneys offered to assist government with amendment (pro-bono)
• New legislation was approved March 2015
Clean Energy Campaign

12. Petition comments
• “No more Natures Little Secret if nature is
destroyed. Understand WHY people come
there and preserve the beauty...learn from
industrialized nations what they have ruined!”
• “One of the best situated places in the world
for renewable energy”
• “As regular visitors to these beautiful islands
we would love to see as much done as
possible to preserve the the natural beauty of
the BVI.”

13. Petition comments ….
Green Energy
Is Da Way To Go!!

14. 2. Establish Parnerships
Government
Schools
Non Profit
Organisation
Business
community
Broader
community

15. Established Partners

16. 3: Education
&
awareness

17. • Educate the community about climate change
• Link to international awareness raising events

18. Adverts run by partners

19. Adverts run by partners

20. 4. Demonstration projects

21. Green VI’s Glass Studio

22. Used veggie oil becomes biofuel

23. Using biofuel to create art

24. Energy audits conducted for 3 schools

25. School retrofitted with LED lights

26. What’s next?

27. 1.Green VI Advocacy in 2016
• Hand over incentive recommendations to
encourage cost effectiveness of renewables
• Partner with BVIEC to develop grid tie
regulations and procedures

28. 2.Establish new partnerships
North Sound

29. Sewage & organics
become
energy
3. Demonstration
Anaerobic
Digester

30. 4. Demonstration Grid Tie Pilot for School

31. 5.Watchdog
• Amend current legislation that restricts the
implementation of renewable energy
• Support educational and awareness programmes
• Set targets for clean renewable energy for the BVI
• Exempt clean, renewable energy technologies from
import and customs duties
• Permit and support grid tie pilot projects based on
solar, wind & anaerobic digestion
• Create an economically viable model for clean,
renewable energy that can include rebates, tax
incentives, feed in tariffs and/ or net metering
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32. What do the next generation say?
• Movie Grade 5