{"id":280728,"date":"2018-07-25T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=280728"},"modified":"2018-07-25T06:00:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T20:00:13","slug":"palau-moves-away-from-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/palau-moves-away-from-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Palau moves away from oil"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK CITY<\/strong>\u2014The Republic of Palau has formed a new partnership with three private companies to transition the island nation toward renewable energy.<\/p>\n

Palau made the partnership with EarthX, GridMarket, and the Global Island Partnership during the United Nations\u2019 High-Level Political Forum to help island and coastal communities achieve their renewable energy and resilient infrastructure goals. <\/p>\n

Palau\u2019s political leadership, GLISPA\u2019s international network, GridMarket\u2019s innovative technology, and EarthX\u2019s resources are collectively accelerating the transition of small island developing states toward renewable energy and resilient infrastructure. <\/p>\n

This new partnership, called \u201cIsland Resilience Partnership,\u201d builds on the Island Resilience Initiative, enhancing the effort by island leaders to scale models for local implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals with new resources and technologies.<\/p>\n

As host of the \u201cOur Ocean Conference\u201d in 2020, Palau is making the partnership a cornerstone of its efforts to combat the effects of climate change. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe voyage to a resilient and sustainable future is not one that is taken alone, but by a movement of cities, states, islands, and countries working together to shape the future we want,\u201d said Pala President Tommy Remengesau. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur partnership has been working across islands for the past 10 years to build island resilience,\u201d said Kate Brown, executive director of GLISPA. \u2026\u201cToo often, islands are dismissed as small and insignificant, but this unique partnership demonstrates why islands are becoming a model for the global transition toward resilient infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Palau\u2019s public-private partnership is currently transitioning its energy economy away from dependency on imported diesel and toward self-sustaining energy infrastructure\u2014a national plan that was developed and is being implemented at no cost to the country\u2019s government due to the generosity of EarthX. <\/p>\n

GridMarket, which was spun out of a public-private partnership with the City of New York following Hurricane Sandy, used its predictive analytics and mapping technology to identify renewable energy and microgrid solutions for Palau\u2019s government buildings, commercial properties, and residential homes. \u201cWe\u2019re honored to be the chosen vehicle for Palau\u2019s national transformation,\u201d said Nick Davis, CEO of GridMarket. <\/p>\n

Trammell S. Crow, founder of EarthX, committed to scaling the public-private partnership in order to help those communities already being impacted by rising sea levels, ocean acidification, and natural disasters. \u201cWe now have a proven model for quickly transforming a diesel-dependent country with a fragile energy grid into a resilient, renewable energy-producing nation,\u201d said Trammell S. Crow. <\/p>\n

Remengesau and the Island Resilience Partnership will be showcasing the progress of its partners with an exhibition and Island Resilience Pavilion at EarthX, the world\u2019s largest environmental expo. EarthX2019 will take place April 26-28, 2019, in Dallas, Texas. (PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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