Northern Caribbean University exploring renewable energy

The Mandeville-based Northern Caribbean University (NCU) says it is exploring the expansion of its infrastructure in renewable energy with the help of partnerships as it confronts global climate change.

Speaking at the official launch of the book Confronting Global Climate change: Experiments and Applications in the Tropics at the university’s main campus recently, NCU president Dr Lincoln Edwards announced that the university is partnering with Wigton Windfarm.

“(NCU) has the moral authority to comment on climate change because we are taking the matter … seriously here at NCU. We are collaborating with Wigton Windfarm to ensure that wind technology can be transferred to NCU and the windmill that now stands atop Sorenson Hall is a symbol of things to come,” said Edwards.

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