The World Bank contracted K&M Advisors to provide technical recommendations for updating the Electricity Supply Act (ESA) in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. K&M reviewed the ESA, conducted several stakeholder consultations in Saint Vincent, and proposed updates to the ESA.

The objective of this consultancy is to support the World Bank through the provision of technical recommendations for the update of the existing Electricity Supply Act of 1973 (ESA) to enhance the energy sector’s capacity to achieve the GoSVG’s articulated national energy policy objectives. The recommendations reflect regional and global practices in energy sector governance and management, with a particular focus on creating an enabling legislative and regulatory framework for development of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. As part of this assignment, K&M carried out a detailed review of the ESA, conducted several stakeholder consultations in Saint Vincent, and prepared a report with recommendations for updating the ESA.

K&M was engaged by the World Bank to assess the impact of extreme weather events on St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Antigua and Barbuda. This is part of a series of World Bank initiatives to improve the Caribbean islands’ resilience to extreme weather events. K&M is the prime contractor, and POWER Engineers is the subcontractor.
K&M performed assessments of the past two extreme weather events on the power systems of the Caribbean islands listed above, identifying risks and vulnerabilities, recommending energy resilience measures for generation assets and T&D systems, and developing an investment plan to undertake the measures. K&M first collected data on the islands’ power systems, and then analyzed extreme weather events’ impacts. The assessments involved interviewing the islands’ utilities (undertaken by POWER) and evaluating prior power system vulnerability studies. Under the direction of K&M, POWER conducted physical and engineering inspections of the most vulnerable power system assets identified by the utility personnel, and a reliability and criticality assessment. The reliability and criticality assessment involved the following tasks: analyzing system reliability, identifying elements that could cause power service interruption, identifying substation and T&D locations subject to flooding, and understanding system performance under contingencies by reviewing T&D system studies.