CDB’s board of directors on Thursday approved a grant of US$127,000 from the bank’s sustainable energy for the Eastern Caribbean (SEEC) programme to help the Dominican government conduct energy audits on 15 public buildings and facilities.
The identified buildings, which include major government complexes such as the Financial Centre, the Douglas-Charles Airport and Dominica State College, currently consume some 4,459,402 kilowatt hours of energy annually, costing more than EC$4 million a year.
The audits will analyse the energy performance of the buildings, and identify and recommend cost-effective and feasible energy efficiency measures.
Acting head of the Renewable Energy/Energy Efficiency Unit, CDB, Joseph Williams, noted that the project could result in cost and carbon emission savings for Dominica.
“Through this project, the government of Dominica could benefit from a reduction in its annual expenditure on electricity of an estimated US$2 million. Implementing energy efficiency measures could result in a decrease of about 30 percent in energy consumption and savings of 1,929 megawatt hours of electricity per year, equivalent to a reduction of 1,254 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, helping Dominica meet its nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement.”
SEEC is a multi-donor trust fund for which CDB is the lead finance institution and executing agency. The programme provides blended resources to address energy security issues through renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions, particularly in the public sector.
The project is in line with CDB’s strategic objective of supporting inclusive growth and sustainable development within its borrowing member countries as well as the bank’s corporate priority of strengthening and modernising social and economic infrastructure.
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I’m completely convinced that the current regime is completely clueless. They have no idea about governing anything. They are strictly motivated by the amount of money and material things they can hoard. All organs of the Skerrit-led administration are inefficacious. To save scarce dollars, most public buildings should be powered by solar energy, the potbellied government should be reduced, unproductive, frequent, overseas travel has to be curtailed. I’m sure that the PM’s overseas engagements from his ascension to his present position, are well over one billion EC. The country is gravel suffering from the lack of transparency, accountability, corrupt practices, too many square pegs in round holes leading to overwhelming unproductivity. The country is heading for the abyss under a government by the worst.
Amazing that these things are coming up right now .
yes we know that its election year and psychology is the name of the game with this Prime Minister , but are not such things the priority of the Government in power effective from day one?
I need someone to question me when i say The Prime Minister is going to claim at some time ”over 500 million was spent on the geothermal project but SOMEBODY ELSE IS TO BLAME ,there is no proper audit nor accountability for the way any amount was actually spent . We Dominicans have to just take Skerrit word for it . he knows his tracks are covered and Dominicans cannot trace real money tracks, when comes to millions ,
I lie ? akx ……….the Christian, i sure he still involve in so called auditing in Government . w
Bye bye geothermal .
To get geothermal working and on the grid is beyond the capabilities of this administration. Millions and millions have been spent on it and nobody is able to hold Skerrit accountable for this waste. Dominica can’t go on like this!
When is the Government going to make themselves efficient by slashing the number of Ministers bleeding the Country .Dominica’s population is now less than 70 thousand and all we’re hearing is Minister for this , Committee for That , department for review of this , head of that , all like a strainer where money is being syphoned from Dominica’s meagre resources.
HELAS DOMINIQUE .
I believe % is one of the opposition’s members without work and very lazy. Your comments make no sense. Go and clean an empty lot in a village or in Roseau. You all cannot replace this Blessed Prime Minister.
You just keep on singing for your supper you miserable individual.
Previous generations, before the age of concrete and air conditioning, new how to design buildings to enable air flow and how to insulate ceilings.
Correction: “new” should read “knew”.
Oh Roger, never mind. It’s the Internet age we are supposed to be speed readers, that’s allowable as we know u can spel. Lol
Sorry…that she read ‘you’ and ‘spell’.
Liz, Regardless of my dyslexia, I am sure that mischievous gremlins sometimes get into my posts between leaving my computer and arriving at DNO!
@ Roger Burnett, The English language and spelling is very unique, unlike the American English language anything or spelling will do!!!!!! 🙊🤣
in 2019. Only now. They refused to put solar panels on top those buildings because they didnt want the public to lose faith in the geothermal project. Afterall it was designed so that we use less energy with fossil fuel. almost 10 years later still no geothermal, and the government buildings still are not energy efficient. what a waste of tax payers money.
2 words come to mind, geothermal and solar. Well, 3 to include wind. (All public bldgs in Martinique have solar…all) I still wonder if Domlec is required to or will pass savings from geothermal on to the gov’t and people of Dominica.
Is there a strategy also to cut on high Government vehicle gas and high cell phone bills?
While on the topic of energy,I wonder why those 18 buffoons or MISLEADERS in the DLP never thought of making some of Dominica’s public buildings more energy efficient,during the construction stage.
What a gang of failures .!!!
Skerrit is the laziest leader Dominica has seen …Dominica will not stop languishing as the last KarKarRat country under Skerrit,because he just does not have it ..
A MISLEADER he is,not a leader!
Skerrit Must Go
Skerrit Must Go
LAZY Skerrit Must Go Now