00:00Why is renewable energy important at this point in time?
00:03Let's look at the issue of climate change and the impact it has on our environment.
00:07Now we use fossil fuels.
00:09Could we get away from using fossil fuels?
00:11The answer is no, at least not in our generation.
00:13So we have to create that partnership where we still use fossil fuels but we integrate
00:17more renewable energy into the conversation so that we can become less reliant on conventional
00:23fossil fuels, coal, oil, and natural gas, and introduce more renewable forms of energy
00:28like solar thermal, solar PV, wind, hydro energy, etc., which we feel is going to be
00:34a good partnership that exists between the old way of energy, which is conventional energy,
00:42and the new way, which is renewable forms of energy.
00:44Dr. Skeeth, co-author of the book Solar Power for the Caribbean, said there needs to be
00:51a bridging of the gap between the state and the private sector where renewable energy
00:56is concerned.
00:58Let's have a starter conversation between the academic institutions and the regular
01:02citizens.
01:03Let's have a conversation between the government officials and regular citizens when it comes
01:08to solar energy.
01:09So we're saying here that we need to have the conversations, we need to bridge that
01:12gap between the two, and we need more people to be aware and to unravel some of the mysteries
01:18when it comes to solar energy.
01:20Skeeth said in light of climate change, going green is the way to go.
01:25But what we can do, we can partner and introduce other forms of renewable energy, which would
01:30help to allay some, or sort of take away some of the load from TNTEC into utilizing more
01:40renewable energy to still be able to satisfy the needs of the general public.
01:45Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
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