Haiti

[HungLikeJesus]

Thanks.

I'm always hesitant to post about work.

We were in the country to help with energy and infrastructure issues. The country doesn't have a national grid - just partial grids in the bigger towns.

The Port-au-Prince metro area has the largest population in the country, and the best grid, but service is still spotty and the grid frequently goes down. Because of that there are something like 10,000 (100,000? I don't remember) diesel generators in the country: at hotels, some restaurants, government offices and the homes of the wealthier citizens and foreign workers.

Our mission is to help with support for renewable energy studies, and evaluating the effect of projects on the grid. If a large solar or wind plant were to be installed, it could actually make the grid reliability worse, as power production becomes harder to control. We're working with the Haiti government, UN, US State Department, Government of Norway, etc. to evaluate both intermittent and baseload power projects for implementation.