Known as the ‘Nature Island of the Caribbean,’ Dominica – in the Lesser Antilles region - is prone to climate-linked natural disasters such as hurricanes, flooding and landslide. While hydropower accounts for 40 percent of the country’s electricity mix, Dominica also remains highly dependent on imported oil and residents pay the highest electricity prices in the Eastern Caribbean.
The geothermal project involves the construction of a small power plant for domestic consumption and a bigger plant of up to 100 MWe of electricity for export to the neighboring French islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique.
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