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Back this week from attending the 28th Port Management Association of the Caribbean (PMAC) Annual General Meeting in Curacao. Over the week many new connections, meeting colleagues, port CEO’s, port managers, port decarbonization leaders and renewable energy champions. A great opportunity to discuss with the ports and decarbonization leaders how renewable energy microgrids can meet the upcoming energy demands that will be placed on the Ports to meet alone the shore power demands of the Cruise industry to satisfy IMO targets for emission free Ports. Microgrids offer a solution to both decarbonize ports and help develop the economies of Caribbean Ports by transitioning those ports to Energy Hubs while adding resilience to wider Island Utilities. Microgrids can integrate Waste To Energy (WTE) systems tackling Island waste and offering vessel waste handling, add Solar, Wind, Tidal or Geothermal Renewable Energy Systems, integrate Battery Energy Storage Systems for Day-to-Day Peak Demand Shaving, create hydrogen from renewable energy to create methanol with C02 captured from WTE processes. Store methanol to provide dispatchable electricity from methanol gensets to give utility gird resilience and meet seasonal shore power peak demands from the Cruise Liner industry. Scalable and Modular systems that can be applied to all Ports on the Caribbean Islands. Thank You to the Government of Prince Edward Island for the opportunity to participate in the Trade Mission to Curacao and the Port Management Association of the Caribbean 2025 Conference.