SAO TOME - Sao Tome and Principe with the support of SIDS DOCK through the United Nations Industrial Development Organization hosts national consultations and dialogue on ocean energy.
Alongside this, a delegation led by Christine Neves Duncan, Chief of Staff and Director of SIDS DOCK is in the country with the aim of leading dialogues to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change. The delegation was received on Monday morning by the Minister of Infrastructure and Natural Resources, Osvaldo de Abreu, to address issues related to the implementation of the project. After the meeting, Christine Duncan visited Maria Manuela Margarido Secondary School, and talked to the students about the project and climate change.
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SIDS fall within the largest renewable energy regions on the planet, whose regions contain a huge amount of energy potential, varying salinity, thermal gradients, tidal currents or ocean waves, which can be used to generate electricity using a range of different technologies.
These technologies could provide reliable, sustainable electricity that is competitive with what is currently generated from diesel. Each type of kinetic or thermal resource in the ocean has unique requirements, characteristics and site challenges, but despite being costly, has great advantages.
Ocean thermal energy, which is based on the conversion of temperature gradient in the ocean into electricity, is continuously available in almost all oceanic locations between the tropics, and therefore represents an unlimited source of energy for the blue economy.
The main objective of the mission is the promotion in the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe of innovations and changes capable of piloting new knowledge driving SIDS and LDCs towards energy independence through the development and deployment of ocean energy technologies, as the first SIDS DOCK member country to benefit from this pilot initiative, which will be explored on a 2023-2030 horizon with the intention to achieve 10MW in phases.
