Haiti wins IDB energy innovation contest

(CMC) Haiti is the lone Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country named among the winners of the IDEAS V 2014 Energy Innovation Contest, an initiative by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for improving energy efficiency and expanding access to renewable energy in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The IDB said that the other winners came from Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Nicaragua and Guatemala. It said there were 282 entries from all 26 IDB member borrowing countries.

FdS Haiti submitted a proposal for an ecological biomass stove.