Background
In 2020 the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Global Development Alliance (GDA) annual program statement, entered a three-year partnership with the Jamaica Energy Resilience Alliance (JERA) known as “Strengthening Energy Sector Resilience in Jamaica” (SESR/Jamaica).
Funding was by USAID under agreement with the head of the JERA – the Cadmus Group LLC. JERA’s mission includes support to local businesses by providing financial assistance and knowledge enhancement on solar photovoltaics, the regulatory and installation processes to reduce their overall power costs.
The project is intended to enhance Jamaica’s ability to withstand and rebound from natural and man-made disasters by developing an enabling environment for the implementation of renewable technologies.
The University of the West Indies, Mona, submitted to USAID a proposal for PV+ storage and sites studies and training which was incorporated into JERA. This map presents the results of a study to identify suitable sites for utility and distributed-scale solar PV and wind technologies across the island of Jamaica. These results should be considered as quite preliminary as a more in-depth analysis would be required by any potential developers.
