Dr. Clarke has 25+ years experience in renewable energy, electric utilities, energy efficiency and energy policy. He has worked in his native Barbados, as well as at Northeast Utilities, Connecticut (on client assignment from Navigant Consulting), NSTAR Electric and Gas Company, Massachusetts, and more recently for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. He is a Senior Member of the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) and a Member of the IEEE. He is an advocate for clean energy and has been an invited speaker at many international, regional and local conferences. He is a seasoned trainer in project economics for renewable energy and was recently retained by the World Bank to deliver seminars at their offices in Washington, DC, Jakarta, Manila and Hanoi, as well as to the Energy Research Institute, Beijing, China.
His most recent work includes:
* Trainer at the World Bank. Click here.
* Specification and supply of 8KWp photovoltaics (PV) panels to the Ministry of Public Works, Barbados
* Development of a spreadsheet sizing tool for sizing grid connected PV projects for RETScreen
* Co-author of a training manual on the legal aspects of clean energy projects for RETScreen. Click here.
* Project Manager of the Caribbean Renewable Energy Development Programme (CREDP) at the CARICOM Secretariat, 2002-08. Click here.
* Coordinator of the CARICOM Task Force on Regional Energy Policy.
Dr. Clarke's education includes the:
* Ph.D. in Energy Management and Policy, University of Pennsylvania, USA
* M. Sc. in Alternative Energy, The University of Reading, UK
* B.Sc. (physics, math, chemistry), University of the West Indies, Barbados
