French Consortium plans to revive large project in Dominica
Dominica, Carribean (source: flickr/ kreyten, creative commons)
Alexander Richter
15 Nis 2014
A French consortium of CDC Infrastructure, GDF Suez and NGE Group has declared an interest to develop the Dominica project, that could also see the supply of geothermal power to neighbouring islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe.
A consortium of CDC Infrastructure, GDF SUEZ and NGE Group officially informed the Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica of its interest in the large scale geothermal power project on the island of Dominica in the Caribbean. The project, which also was to supply power to the islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe had been abandoned by EDF, as reported on ThinkGeoEnergy before.
EDF had abandoned the project in 2013 on the basis of the project not promising required profitability. This project planned to install up to 130 MW in Dominica, a small independent island of 80,000 people located between Guadeloupe and Martinique to distribute 50 MW to each and increase the share of renewables in their energy supply.
The consortium would plan a two phase development. The first phase would supply the domestic market of Dominica, and a second phase to export electricity to the French Antilles (Guadeloupe, Martinique) via a submarine cable.
The project is expected to reduce the cost of electricity production and greenhouse gas emissions, as in Dominica in the French Antilles (Guadeloupe, Martinique) , “said Victorin Lurel, Minister of Overseas Territories.
GDF SUEZ confirmed to have submitted an interest in this project. “We are at the beginning of a process that will take several years to implement the two phases of the project “as clarified by GDF SUEZ.
“We hope that our offer will be well received and that we can develop the project, which beyond Dominica offers an interesting energy perspective for the French Antilles, “so the company.
Source: BatiWeb
