Solar Water Heating TechScope Market Readiness Assessment for Eight Caribbean Countries

This regional assessment report applies the SWH TechScope Market Readiness Assessments Methodology in eight Caribbean countries: Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Dominican Republic Grenada, Jamaica, St Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago. It is recommended that the SWH TechScope Market Readiness Assessment Report be read in parallel with this report.

The assessment report highlights that solar water heating (SWH) systems can be highly cost-effective across the Caribbean, taking advantage of the region’s abundant solar resource. The report remarks that persistent barriers to SWH adoption remain across many Caribbean countries, such as financial barriers, weak enabling policy environments, lack of public awareness, and small and fragmented SWH industries.