Stkitts-Brief on The Tradewinds Briefhttps://tradewindsbrief.com/categories/stkitts-brief/Recent content in Stkitts-Brief on The Tradewinds BriefThe Tradewinds Briefhttps://tradewindsbrief.com/images/brand/og-default.pnghttps://tradewindsbrief.com/images/brand/og-default.pngHugo -- 0.142.0en-usThu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000Drew's Energy Bet: 50 Megawatts of Solar, Nevis Geothermal, and a Federation Trying to Walk Off the Oil Billhttps://tradewindsbrief.com/st-kitts-nevis/drew-solar-geothermal-energy/Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://tradewindsbrief.com/st-kitts-nevis/drew-solar-geothermal-energy/<p>At the 2026 Labour Day rally in Basseterre, Prime Minister Dr. Terrance Drew used a chunk of his keynote address to talk about something most Caribbean leaders only mention in passing: how the federation actually intends to generate its electricity over the next decade.</p> <p>The headline numbers are a 50-megawatt solar project for St. Kitts and the parallel geothermal development on Nevis. Together, if both come online as planned, they would push the federation past the threshold that separates a country still buying its baseload from international suppliers from a country that has built its own.</p>