Founded in August 2008, the International Partnership for Energy Development in Island Nations (EDIN) said last week that the three partner nations: Iceland, New Zealand and the USA, are launching pilot projects to map and asses geothermal resources on three island nations, two of them in the Caribbean.
A team from Iceland will be working on Dominica, a US team will be working in the US Virgin Islands and their New Zealand counterpart will be working to identify and evaluate geothermal resource potential on a number of South Pacific island nations, climatechangeisreal.com reports.
Geothermal power could be a welcome relief for small island nations, offering the means to generate clean, base load power cheaply, cleanly and sustainably.
Iceland chose the Commonwealth of Dominica for its pilot project. The island is known to have “significant geothermal resources,” resources that Iceland has a lot of experience developing. Shifting its energy policy to focus on developing domestic, renewable energy resources, 99.9 percent of Iceland’s electricity is supplied from geothermal and hydropower, a transition the Icelandic team and partners on Dominica hope to reproduce for the Caribbean island.
To support the process, the United Nations Geothermal Training Programme is offering training courses to qualified candidates from Dominica.
Yeah, Dominica!! Way to go. That’s my homeland.
This is an excellent idea and a wonderful step in the right direction. More nations need to work together to share their knowledge in helping towards cleaner environments and better a quality of living.