Ice storage energy Haiti

Can private investment help solve Haiti's energy crisis?

“We have had this energy crisis for a long time, more than 20 years,” says Evenson Calixte, managing director of Haiti’s Autorité Nationale de Régulation du Secteur de l’Energie (ANARSE), the nation’s energy regulatory authority. “And we believe that one element that can help reform this sector is private investment.”

What are the benefits of ice-based thermal storage cooling systems?

Ice-based thermal storage cooling systems provide several benefits, including: • Lower operating cost based on off-peak electrical rates. • Reduced capacity chiller sizing relative to peak load (66% of peak load is a starting point estimate). • Reduced utility demand charges due to reduced chiller capacity.

How much money do oil companies make in Haiti?

In August 2020, a government anti-corruption task force published a report on the last ten years of the petroleum industry. It concluded that private oil companies operating in Haiti made $94m in undue profits between March 2019 and May 2020 at the expense of the state.

How does an ice storage cooling system work?

The fundamental concept of an ice storage cooling system is to operate a chiller during periods of low utility rates (typically at night) to transform a volume of liquid water, held in one or more large, unpressurized, insulated containers, into ice. This ice is then melted to supply cooling during the subsequent peak loading period.