A just released study in the journal Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews makes the case that pathways exist for small islands to replace fossil fuels by renewable sources, such as wind and solar, up to 100%, while at the same time achieving energy security in economically viable ways and  honouring The Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement advocates for limiting mean global temperature rise to 1.5oC by the end of the century. The study outlines a two Phase pathway using a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) to overcome problems of frequency fluctuation and load shedding which come with the introduction of more and more intermittent renewable energy to an island grid. Using their model, the authors show that it is possible to achieve 100% RE in Caribbean SIDS within 35 years.  The study is authored by a team of  scientists from UWI Mona ’s Alternative Energy Research Group located in the Department of Physics. It uses Jamaica as a case study.

To get a copy of the study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032119308767?dgci...

For more about the Alternative Energy Research Group: https://www.mona.uwi.edu/physics/reg/about

For more about the Department of Physics at The UWI Mona: https://www.mona.uwi.edu/physics/home

Article posted January 2020