Analysis of Grid Emission Factors for the Electricity Sector in Caribbean Countries

As part of their capacity development efforts to promote mitigation actions, the UNEP DTU Partnership, together with the UNFCCC Regional Collaborating Centre in the Caribbean, UNDP and OLADE, agreed to collaborate with Caribbean countries willing to update or establish their grid emission factors by undertaking a study to calculate standardized grid emissionfactors (GEF) for sixteen independent nations or groups of countries in the Caribbean region as a basis to the further identification of mitigation activities such as CDM PoAs or any other market-related instrument to be approved by the UNFCCC.

The study analyses the following topics: – Status of the calculation and adoption of grid emissionfactors for each country in the region. – Characteristics of electricity generation units in thedifferent Caribbean countries. – Application of the CDM methodological tool forcalculating a standardized grid emission factor for countries with generation units with similar characteristics.

Data on the power systems of the different countries have been collected from several centres and institutions, including the UNEP DTU Partnership, the Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE), the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, the Caribbean Regional Collaboration Centre of the UNFCCC, theInternational Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Observatoryfor Renewable Energy in Latin America and the Caribbean.

In addition, data have been collected from CDM projects, studies of the electricity sector in the region and public information issued by electric utilities.