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Edited transcript from 2020 Virtual 12th Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum Town Hall

Many thanks to the CARILEC CE INDUSTRY Journal for publishing the “Let’s Be Honest About Thermal” panel discussion from the virtual 12th Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum about the role of thermal energy in the Caribbean’s clean energy transition and integration of increased renewables for a sustainable energy future. Moderated by CADMUS, learn the perspectives from WRB Energy, Wartsila, and Eagle LNG Partners, at http://www.carilec.org/ce-journal-nov-2021-issue-18/

AUTHORITY MAGAZINE – Interview with Robert Blenker of WRB Energy: 5 Things We Must Do to Inspire The Next Generation About Sustainability and The Environment

Robert Blenker, President and CEO of WRB Energy, was recently interviewed by Authority Magazine, a leading publication devoted to sharing interesting, actionable and empowering stories through its thought leadership series. We welcome you to read: Interview with Robert Blenker of WRB Energy: 5 Things We Must Do to Inspire The Next Generation About Sustainability and The Environment at https://bit.ly/3rpC7pW

Many thanks to the Caribbean Electric Utility Services Corporation (CARILEC) for publishing two of WRB Energy’s articles in the May 2021 issue of the Caribbean Electric Industry Journal—What Will It Take to Develop More Renewable Energy in the Caribbean and E-Mobility: Gaining Momentum in the Caribbean. We value the collaboration, research and shared learning of CARILEC to provide innovative solutions in the energy sector for a sustainable future. Read more:

What Will It Take to Develop More Renewable Energy

E-Mobility: Gaining Momentum in the Caribbean

As a capital partner in the USAID-supported Jamaica Energy Resilience Alliance,* WRB seeks to help eligible businesses in Jamaica lower energy costs, reduce carbon emissions, and increase reliability and resiliency, cost-effectively. Read more.

Jamaica Energy Resilience Alliance Fact Sheet

Transcript from 2020 Virtual 12th Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum
As increasingly ambitious renewable energy targets are announced in the Caribbean, the vision for a clean energy transition occasionally minimizes the ongoing role of thermal (fossil fuels). Can solar, wind and storage along maintain a reliable, resilient electricity grid? Here’s an honest discussion about thermal: do we need it, how much, and how do we frame it in national energy targets. READ MORE

WRB Energy participates in Alliance to help strengthen energy sector resilience in Jamaica.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)  launched a three-year US$4 million Jamaica Energy Resilience Alliance led by Cadmus Group LLC (Cadmus). This Alliance, which involves a number of prominent local organizations, including WRB Energy, is expected to invest up to US$50 million to boost Jamaica’s renewable energy landscape, with direct economic and environmental impacts in the energy sector to the benefit of Jamaica’s  tourism sectors, and  other essential industry. READ MORE

By Luke Torrance – Reporter, Tampa Bay Business Journal
A Tampa-based company that partially owned and operated the electric utility for a Caribbean nation is now exiting that country, $63 million richer. WRB Enterprises, a privately held company that focuses on clean energy production, integrated utility operations and community investments, announced recently that it has sold off its ownership in Grenada's power utility. The company helped to run the utility, Grenlec, for 26 years.

"While we are sad to exit our investment in Grenlec after 26 years, we are proud to have transformed the company into a world-class utility system: one of the best-run utilities in the Caribbean," said Chairman and CEO G. Robert Blanchard Jr. READ MORE

Tampa, Fla.– WRB Enterprises (WRB) and Grenada Private Power Limited (GPP) today announced it had executed a Settlement Agreement with the Government of Grenada, effective December 24, 2020. Under that Agreement, WRB/GPP and related parties transferred their majority stake in Grenlec to the Government in exchange for the payment of USD $63 million, thereby making the Government of Grenada the majority shareholder of Grenlec. READ MORE