September 2015 Issue Business View Caribbean

74 September 2015 - Business View Caribbean As the four-year old company grows and matures, so does its innovative technologies, Reid elaborates: “We’re developing a renewable energy division. We’ve pioneered the use and application of hybrid street lights, where you have a wind turbine with solar panels driving the street light and we found with that, there was excess energy, excess electricity which we were dumping into the ground. So, then we rigged up elec- tric gates and closed-circuit TV cameras to run off that, and we still had excess energy. Then we developed base-charging units where students could re-charge their mobile devices for free. We actually installed this at the University of West Indies in Barbados and in Trinidad. That was patented and it’s the first of its kind in the world. And now we’re taking that technology off of the street light and putting it on buildings. We’re of- fering an off-grid, renewable, energy solution - a hybrid solution of wind turbine and solar panels.” Reid’s ambitions for creating a sustainable energy future for the islands are grand: “We want to work with the Barbados government, and other country’s governments, towards a hundred percent renewable situation. Barbados can go a hundred percent renew-