ORGANISATION OF EASTERN CARIBBEAN STATES

Oceans Governance in the OECS: Maximizing the use of the

Oceans for Human wellbeing Asha Singh, PhD

Dr. Asha Singh-OECS Commission

Energy Use in the OECS

Antigua

Barbudaand

Montserrat

Guadeloupe

Dom inica

Martinique

St. Lucia

Grenada

Barbados

St. Kitts and Nevis

AnguillaBritish Virgin Island

Oceans and Sustainable Development

asingh@oecs.org

The Oceans: sustainable governance

Adopt multiple ocean planning and Integrated Mgt.

Promote Social and Economic Developmentsustainable use of the resources

Building Resilience and Managing for uncertainties- Climate change

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Harnessing Oceans Energy

Examples of applicable OE technologies include; • Combined Cooling and Desalination

technologies,• Ocean Current Energy, • Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, • Offshore Wind Energy, • Tidal Energy ,• Wave Energy and • Floating Solar Photovoltaic.

Challenge…. Cost are high

But likely a Convergence

typically $350/MWh

Marine Renewable toward energy efficiency

Marine Renewabl

es

The proposed project will facilitate the assessment of • the gross and theoretically

extractable Ocean Energy resources of the nearshore and territorial waters

• provide clear recommendations on the geographical areas most suited for future array-scale deployment of OE technologies.

Contribution of the Oceans

Marine Renewabl

es

The primary output will be the creation of an Ocean Energy Atlas for the OECS incorporating ‘base layer’ resource data across the applicable OE technologies