Trinidad Sustainability Conference 2025
In June 2025, CEC Chair, Melanie Chen presented “Transformational Scenarios for Energy Transition” and participated in the panel “Global Energy Investment Shifts: Opportunities and Risks for SIDS” with Daryl White, MD Caribbean of IDB Invest and Tisha Marajh, Group Sustainability Officer of Republic Bank and moderated by Dax Driver.
Please use the below link to access the presentation“Transformational Scenarios for Energy Transition” and the short, medium and long term appendices.
CEC CEO, Eugene Tiah participated in a panel on “Increasing efficiency and reducing consumption of energy” with Dr Mohammad Rafik, Executive Director of CCREE and Kiran Harnanan, Project Manager, UNDP, Global Climate Change Alliance Plus (GCCA+), T&T.
The session explored strategies for increasing energy efficiency and reducing overall energy consumption, crucial elements in mitigating climate change and promoting sustainable development.
For the CEC presentation that Eugene Tiah addressed, please use the link below.
The TT Sustainability Conference also held workshop discussion groups and the following topics were addressed:
- Regional grid interconnection
- Energy efficiency and electricity pricing (T&T focus)
- Reducing venting/flaring and CCUS (T&T focus)
- Emergent tech: new wave, ocean, tide currents
- Emergent tech: new biofuels and low carbon fuels
- Green hydrogen as a transition mechanism in T&T and the Caribbean
- Climate and clean energy financing
- People, capacity and skills development
Melanie Chen was on the IDB led team presenting on “Regional Grid Integration” that was chosen as the most popular topic to be pursued. The message from the workshop team was that regional integration should be approached in stages by analysing:
- Southern Caribbean: Guyana, Suriname and T&T
- OECS
- Northern Caribbean
After these modules were analysed, then a regional interconnection analysis should then be undertaken to see if it is feasible to interconnect the entire region.
