Barbados Sustainable Energy Industry Market Assessment Report In preparation of the GEF Project No. 9648: “Strategic Platform to Promote Sustainable Energy Technology Innovation, Industrial Development and Entrepreneurship in Barbados” Final report: 19 March 2018 Procurement Notice Ref. No.: 7000002430 Submitted by ConPlusUltra GmbH Written by: Josef Buchinger, David Ince, Leisa Perch and Brigitte Hatvan UNIDO Project Contact: Martin Lugmayr, [email protected], Laia Barbara, [email protected] MIICS Project Contact: Rodney Payne, Senior Administrative Officer, [email protected] Barbados Sustainable Energy Industry Market Assessment Report Table of Contents Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................................................. 1 Acronyms ......................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Units and nomenclature .................................................................................................................................................. 4 1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................. 5 1.1 Objective of the assignment ............................................................................................................................... 5 2 Sustainable Energy Industry Market Assessment ....................................................................................................... 5 2.1 Methodology ...................................................................................................................................................... 5 2.2 Interview Questions for Bilateral Meetings ........................................................................................................ 6 2.3 Survey ................................................................................................................................................................. 7 3 Status of sustainable energy markets in Barbados ..................................................................................................... 7 4 Demand side potentials and trends ............................................................................................................................ 9 4.1 Government ........................................................................................................................................................ 9 4.2 Tourism ............................................................................................................................................................... 9 4.3 Transport .......................................................................................................................................................... 11 4.4 Fisheries ............................................................................................................................................................ 13 4.5 Agro-processing, food and beverage ................................................................................................................ 13 4.6 Water & waste management ........................................................................................................................... 14 5 Supply(ier) side analysis ............................................................................................................................................ 15 5.1 General aspects ................................................................................................................................................ 15 5.2 Solar Thermal .................................................................................................................................................... 16 5.2.1 Solar Water heating...................................................................................................................................... 16 5.2.2 Solar Industrial heat ..................................................................................................................................... 19 5.2.3 Solar Cooling ................................................................................................................................................. 20 5.2.4 Thermal Storage ........................................................................................................................................... 21 5.3 Electricity generation ........................................................................................................................................ 22 5.3.1 PV ................................................................................................................................................................. 23 5.3.2 Wind ............................................................................................................................................................. 27 5.3.3 Bioenergy (biomass, biogas) ......................................................................................................................... 29 5.3.4 Storage ......................................................................................................................................................... 31 5.3.5 Ocean energy ............................................................................................................................................... 32 5.3.6 Waste to energy (land fill gas, incineration)................................................................................................. 33 5.3.7 Small and micro hydro power ...................................................................................................................... 33 5.3.8 Geothermal Energy ...................................................................................................................................... 33 5.4 Transport .......................................................................................................................................................... 33 5.4.1 Electric Vehicles ............................................................................................................................................ 33 5.4.2 Biofuels for transport ................................................................................................................................... 35 5.4.3 Infrastructure (charging stations) ................................................................................................................. 36 5.5 Energy Efficiency ............................................................................................................................................... 38 5.5.1 Buildings ....................................................................................................................................................... 38 5.5.2 Appliances .................................................................................................................................................... 40 5.5.3 Lighting ......................................................................................................................................................... 41 5.5.4 Generation and distribution ......................................................................................................................... 42 2/79 Barbados Sustainable Energy Industry Market Assessment Report 5.5.5 Energy management in SMEs and industrial processes ............................................................................... 44 5.6 Special aspects .................................................................................................................................................. 45 5.6.1 Marine environment .................................................................................................................................... 45 5.6.2 Hurricane proof designs ............................................................................................................................... 45 5.6.3 Desalination .................................................................................................................................................. 46 5.7 Services ............................................................................................................................................................. 47 5.7.1 Energy auditing ............................................................................................................................................. 47 5.7.2 Energy Service Company .............................................................................................................................. 48 6 Testing, standardisation and certification ................................................................................................................. 49 7 Gender & socio economic context ............................................................................................................................ 50 7.1 Gender .............................................................................................................................................................. 50 7.2 Climate Change and Hurricane Resilience .......................................................................................................