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Stakeholders share a photo opportunity at the Jamaica Energy Resilience Alliance launch.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a three year US$4 million Jamaica Energy Resilience Alliance led by Cadmus Group LLC (Cadmus).
This alliance, which involves a number of prominent local organisations, is expected to invest up to US$50 million to boost Jamaica’s renewable energy landscape, with direct economic and environmental impacts in the energy sector to the benefit of Jamaica’s tourism sectors, and other essential industries.
Emphasizing the critical need for public-private sector co-operation in the development of Jamaica’s energy sector, USAID Acting Deputy Administrator, John Barsa, characterized the new initiative as “critical to Jamaica’s future and part of our efforts to increase the diversity of Jamaica’s energy, to strengthen the resilience of energy systems and infrastructure and to decrease vulnerability to natural disasters