CREF 2019: Island Resiliency Action Challenge

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Gathering island policy-makers, regulators, and utilities, along with international providers of finance and expertise, the intended outcomes of the action-oriented Island Resiliency Action Challenge are three-fold: 1. Collaboratively triage regional resiliency challenges 2. Identify the most critical immediate actions we must challenge ourselves to accomplish. 3. Leverage this action challenge into a collaborative, stakeholder engagement platform to assist other island communities and other extremely vulnerable cities, like Miami.

Intended outcomes:

  1. Collaboratively identify most critical regional resilience challenges

  2. Identify the most critical immediate action we must challenge ourselves to accomplish within 12 months.

  3. Leverage this action challenge into a collaborative, 12 month stakeholder engagement with follow up throughout the year.

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Island Resiliency Action Challenge (IRAC) 2019 Agenda

Slido Data Summary - (very interesting data)

IRAC 2019 List of Participants

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    • If you are not on the list, pls add yourself and table number.

Winning Problem Statement:

The most urgent obstacle to greater energy resiliency for the island is:

Cost to Building Resilient Infrastructure and the Recovery of that Cost from Consumers while keeping Energy Prices Attractive to Investment

  • Allison Jean, Chief Executive Officer, National Utilities Regulatory Commission

Winning 12 month action:
Table 10: Design a regional blended financial instruments including equity, impact investment, mezzanine and debt as well as a risk mitigation window. Task Force Sign-up

  • 90 day Milestone 1: Framework/action

  • 90 day Milestone 2: define demand and participants

  • 90 day Milestone 3: define regulatory tariff structure

Task Force Leader:

Deputy Task Force Leader:

***Runner up and contender for CREF2020 IRAC Impact Award:

Table 4: Distributed, Resiliency Ownership Program DROP(c) Drop Rates Task Force Sign-up

  • 90 day Milestone 1: Data Collection & Assessment for distributed energy resources

  • 90 day Milestone 2: Cost benefit analysis REPORT

  • 90 day Milestone 3: Utility and Gov sponsor of small pilot project

Task Force Leader:

Deputy Task Force Leader:

Speaker Presentations:


Hurricane Dorian Fundraiser Go Fund Me Page

2018 Winning Task Force Presentation - Recipients of the 2019 CREF Impact Award

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  • David Gumbs,(former) CEO, ANGLEC

  • Dagmara Avanindra, Founder and CEO, DAVA Energy Solutions

  • Chris Burgess, Director of Projects - Islands Energy Program, RMI

  • Patrick Drijvers, Disaster Coordinator, Netherlands Antilles

  • Jason Robinson, Solar Buzz Jamaica


2018 IRAC Photos:

On November 7, 2018 New Energy Events convened over a hundred island energy leaders representing 27 countries and territories, 14 island utilities, 10 island governments and notable organizations such as Clinton Climate Initiative, the World Bank, and Rocky Mountain Institute for the first Caribbean Island Resiliency Action Challenge, co-hosted by the Caribbean Development Bank, to vote on the most critical resiliency problem facing island communities.