Business View Caribbean | September 2022

45 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN VOLUME 9, ISSUE 9 C I V I LECTR I C SOLUT IONS L IMI TED highly specialized in commercial, industrial and utility scale solar PV projects.” Since then, Civilectric have developed industrial solar rooftops, ground mounted systems, and have developed and designed solar PV carports for enterprises that didn’t have enough rooftop space for solar. These unique solutions were tailormade especially for high-speed winds, high salinity, and other Caribbean weather conditions. “Our passion for solar PV and renewable energy is in our genes,” Pijuan explains, “and we believe that all the opportunities came from this natural desire to change our environment to a cleaner, nicer, and sustainable world. Our vision has a wide spectrum of possibilities and solutions that combined should help Jamaica and the Caribbean to achieve this cleaner and healthier transition to a more sustainable world, using natural clean resources like sun, wind, hydro, waves, biomass, and geothermal solutions.” In terms of green buildings, the Civilectric team looks at possible solutions they can offer for powering the structures. This holds true for electric vehicle charging, as well. Because the company was designing and constructing solar carports, it was a natural evolution to also get involved with EV chargers. According to Pijuan, “We have already done a couple of projects with EV charging stations. We just finalized a project for the European Commission building here in Kingston, where we installed electric vehicle chargers below the solar carport. We installed two solar carports, a rooftop solar installation, and then we put in two docks – smart chargers – for EVs. As a company, we started with more focus on solar, but now our intention is to diversify into other related sectors for the following years.” Working on a small island with variable size projects means that Civilectric needs to be a very flexible organization that is capable enough to adapt in any given situation. “That means that our human resources need to be very elastic