Residents and representatives from the government and the BVI Electricity Corporation signed multiple solar contracts last Thursday during the official launch of the Solar Technology and Energy Programme. Participants in …
February 13, 2025
May 26, 2024
Buy BVI expo draws 35 businesses
Organic food. Fashion accessories. Books. Cosmetics. Marine technologies. Solar equipment. All were among the many products and services on display at the Buy BVI Trade Expo May 17-18 at the …
April 25, 2024
Homeowners promised solar option
The BVI Electricity Corporation is implementing an initiative to bring solar energy to more Virgin Islands households, Communications and Works Minister Kye Rymer announced during a press conference last Thursday. …
February 12, 2024
Solar signs installed at two schools
As part of efforts to improve road safety, the Public Works Department has installed solar radar school zone signs at the Willard Wheatley Primary School in East End and the …
January 20, 2023
Ground broken for Anegada solar grid
The BVI Electricity Corporation broke ground on a major Anegada solar plant last month after more than two years of delays, but no planning application has been submitted for the …
October 18, 2021
EDITORIAL: Where’s Anegada’s solar grid?
At a time when much of the world is steadily switching to alternative energy, the Virgin Islands is falling further and further behind as it continues to generate nearly all …
April 15, 2021
Jost Van Dyke clinic to get solar power
The Recovery and Development Agency recently awarded a $65,500 contract to Amandla Engineering to supply and install a solar facility at the Jost Van Dyke Clinic by the end of …
March 30, 2021
EDITORIAL: BVIEC owes explanation on Anegada solar contract
The BVI Electricity Corporation owes the public an explanation. Starting in late 2019, the utility used a highly unusual tender process to choose a contractor to build a multimillion-dollar solar …
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November 26, 2018
EDITORIAL: Virgin Islands a step closer to green energy, but more needed ASAP
This month the government took an important step toward encouraging green energy, but the territory still has a long way to go in overcoming its embarrassingly outdated overreliance on fossil …
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