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Solar Gray Energy Limited held a launch in Tobago for the integration of solar power and the best uses of solar energy in Tobago.

The launch took place at Fairways Restaurant in Lowlands on Friday and brought together a team of experts from around the region.

Elizabeth Williams has more in this report.
Transcript
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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