Answer To: Hypothetical PROJECT on Grenada. and the desire to shift the country away from fossil fuel to solar...
Komalavalli answered on Jul 17 2021
Grenada
Grenada is made up of the southern end of the Windward Isles: Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique. Formerly occupied by the French and then the Britons for many years, the islands of Grenada still maintain their cultural, architectural and site designations in their remnants of these European influences. St. George's, the capital, is on Grenada's south-west coast. It is the government headquarters and the principal centre of commerce.
The State of Grenada is located in the south of Trinidad and Tobago, and in the East Caribbean between St. Vincent and the Grenadines. It is Windward Islands' southernmost. It lies 100 miles south-west of Barbados, to the north of Venezuela.
Grenoble has a width of 12 km and a length of 23 km and covers a surface area of 120 m2, Carriacou has a surface area of 34 km2, Petite Martinique has an area of 486 acres (18 km), and the area of Grenada is 44 kg (194 hectares).
The Grenada volcanic origin has generated topographies that range from highland rain forests to drier plains and coastal mangroves of remarkable beauty and environmental variation. Mt. St. Catherine at 2,757 ft. is the highest peak, while in the centre massif there is old volcanic craters.
Grenada relies heavily on imported fossil fuels, like many island governments, for its energy need. As power generation is reasonably efficient and the transportation industry has become less dominant than the other nations of the Eastern Caribbean, however, their oil import costs have historically remained below the average in the Eastern Caribbean. Nevertheless Grenada presently spends around 6% of its GDP on oil imports below the average of 8.2% in the Eastern Caribbean (IMF, 2013).
The Energy Matrix of Grenada:
The Grenada primary energy production was limited to 182,5 barrels of petroleum equivalent per day (boe/day) of the CR&W and to 2,5 boe per day of solar power. About 93 percent of the vast bulk of energy was imported as petroleum products. A total of 2,600 boe/day was imported by the island country. Electricity generation is made available at around 41% of the oil products (1070 boe/day). Losses across generation, delivery and transmission total 774 Boe/day, with the ultimate consumption being 296 Boe/day. Grenada's overall final consumption is in 2011 boe/day, 1530 boe/day being petroleum products, 296 boe/day in power and 182,5 boe / day in electricity.
The sector utilises 41 percent of energy in transport with 835 boe/day and 614 boe/day with 30,5%; the trade sector with 23 percent and 459 boe/day; the industry with 74 boe/day and 3,5 percent; and other consumption, including street and government lights, with 29 boe/day and 1,5 percent.
Total Energy Supply:
Grenada was supplied with 2785 boe/day of total energy (TES) in 2013. The import of petroleum products represented 2,600 pounds a day and represented 93% of the TES. The rest, 7% were CR&W, with 182,5% of boe/day and 2.5 pounds of solar energy a day, or just 0,01%. Grenada doesn't have proven sources of fossil fuel, but has considerable potential for renewable energy. Its geothermic outlook is great, its position in the tropics means that wind, sunlight and municipal trash are widely available.
In the past 10-15 years, Grenada's hydrocarbon resources imports have grown dramatically. TES increased from 1110 pounds a day in 2001 to 2096 pounds a day by 2008, with the exception of wood-fuel and other biomass...