Commercial solar in Barbados.
The most expensive power of the two markets we work in, and the strongest case for making your own. Systems from 50 to 100 kilowatts, built the same way we build them in Jamaica.
Barbados pays about a third more for power than Jamaica does.
Business electricity here runs around 31 US cents a kilowatt-hour all in, against about 24 cents in Jamaica. Same equipment, same install, a system pays for itself faster on this side.
Barbados is also further down the road than most of the region - roughly a fifth of the market already has PV, and the country is aiming at 100% renewable by 2030. The question here usually isn't whether solar makes sense. It's whether the system you're being quoted is the right one.
Business tariffs, all in. The gap is why the same system pays back sooner here.
One company, factory to switch-on.
Most of what goes wrong on a commercial system goes wrong in the handovers - between the supplier, the shipper, the broker, the electrician and whoever signs it off. There are no handovers here. We buy the equipment, bring it in, install it, certify it and commission it, and the same people answer the phone afterwards.
Named makes and models, bought direct where it makes sense. You get told exactly what is going on the roof before anything is ordered.
Shipping, importation, customs, duty and brokerage handled on our side rather than yours, so the equipment arrives as our problem and not your paperwork.
Certified by a licensed specialist before handover, then commissioned rather than just switched on.
30 years on the panels, 10 on the battery, 5 on the Deye inverter, then paid after-sales service.
Systems we have built.
Photographed on site, not borrowed from a brochure. This is the standard your job gets held to.
Full-length array, with the battery bank and inverter in their own room.
Guests notice an outage faster than anyone, so the battery side matters here.
Racked storage, wired, tested and signed off - the same standard as the commercial work.
A system that can't be certified is a system you can't sign off.
At 50 to 100 kilowatts this is where jobs come apart, and it is the first thing cut when a price looks too good to be true.
- Certified before handover.By a licensed specialist, not by us signing off our own work. We have been called to systems already sitting on a roof that never were.
- Commissioned, not just switched on.Tested, set up for monitoring, and followed up afterwards. At this size that is not optional.
- The paperwork is ours.Shipping, importation, customs, duty and brokerage sit on our side of the line. You are buying a working system, not a container and a problem.
Tell us what you're trying to power.
A few questions and we'll tell you roughly what size system it needs, what it would take to keep you running through an outage, and whether we're the right people to build it.
Or email info@carribsol.com.
- 1We come back with a view
Including whether a system is worth it for your building at all.
- 2A site assessment
The roof, the load, and how you use power through the day. Free, and no obligation after it.
- 3A design and a price
Sized to your building, quoted in USD.