GREEN HYDROGEN PROJECT COMING SAYS YOUNG

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Cabinet has approved plans to build a green hydrogen project. According to Energy Minister Stuart Young, T&T is leading the region when it comes to energy transition.

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00:00I'd like to take this opportunity to thank CAF because the cabinet took a decision very

00:07many months ago that we are going to build as a government the first pilot project of

00:12green hydrogen.

00:14While the project is approved with part funding from CAF, it does not equate to an automatic

00:19switch from natural gas to green hydrogen as it would not be cost effective at this

00:25time.

00:26Energy Minister Stuart Young was speaking at the Caribbean's report on economic development

00:31which focused on renewed energy.

00:33The minister painted a picture of this country's position in the Caribbean region.

00:38Trinidad and Tobago is at the forefront of the energy transition in the whole CARICOM

00:45region.

00:47Trinidad and Tobago is the most advanced when it comes to ensuring that we move very quickly

00:54to integrate renewables into our power generation grid.

00:59Minister Young gave some insight into one of the latest projects.

01:03Trinidad and Tobago currently is constructing the largest solar energy grid to be fed into

01:11our power generation in the whole English-speaking CARICOM region of 92.2 megawatts called Project

01:18Lara in Brechin Castle.

01:21On the issue of the implementation of solar energy into a national grid, the minister

01:25stressed that it is not an easy fix as some may think.

01:29He said it is a costly exercise that requires caution.

01:33If every roof in Trinidad had solar panels for it to feed into your national grid, it

01:37would all have to go to substations that then regularize the electricity coming in because

01:44they're coming in at various voltages and frequencies that you can't just throw into

01:48your grid.

01:49So the cost infrastructure in Trinidad and Tobago actually has one of the most modern

01:54and sophisticated national grids in the whole CARICOM region quite simply isn't there.

02:01You're going to have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build these substations

02:05for it all to feed into, regularize it, get it at the proper voltage and then send it

02:10back out into the grids.

02:13Aksha Galstan, TV6 News.

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