Green, clean, cheap energy will enable Nevis West Indies to attract light industry.

A top Nevis Island Administration (NIA) official said that Nevis Island would have greater leverage to attract light industry to the island, once it began to utilise green, cheap electricity.

Carlisle Powell is the Junior Minister with responsibility for Communications, Works, Public Utilities, Post, Physical Planning, Natural Resources and Environment. He said in an interview that the island’s ability to attract more industries, would be one of several major benefits geothermal energy would bring to Nevisians.

We would be able to attract light industries which for the most part at the present moment are located in Trinidad because of the cost of using natural gas and the cost of cheap oil in Trinidad and Tobago.

So we will be able to dangle that carrot, to light industries who want to locate in Nevis and that to us at this present moment is something which is always going to be important for the people of Nevis. Once you are able to attract more industries, more businesses because of the cheaper green energy…people are going to want to locate in Nevis to take advantage of that fact.

If we can provide cheap electricity to the people of Nevis it would mean that you would make so many things cheaper - the cost of cooling homes and offices; the cost of freezing and chilling from in the supermarkets; the cost of living and once you can make the cost of living cheaper you now allow people to do more with less.

There is no better selling point than somebody who has come to Nevis saying to people when they go back home ‘I have been to Nevis and it is some place I will return to because it is fantastic for a holiday’ .So we are always going to be in tourism and with geothermal and tourism going together it is an extremely good selling point.

This will hopefully allow the Island of Nevis to take advantage of the clean, green, renewable source of energy in the near future.

Nevis Lover ~ Becca Briley

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