This document was developed to assist organisations with the implementation of projects within the framework provided by CARICOM’s Regional Programme for Building Energy Efficiency Projects (BEEPs). The BEEP falls under the umbrella of the Caribbean Sustainable Energy Roadmap and Strategy (C-SERMS), one of the components of CARICOM Energy Policy, designed to build on existing efforts in the Region and to provide CARICOM Member States with a coherent strategy for transitioning to sustainable energy.

The CARICOM Regional BEEP will benefit from a larger economy of scale to help incorporate more efficient technology which is often seen as expensive, riskier, and harder to maintain and operate; implement capacity-building to support facility managers and building operators; and aggregate building energy performance information; and coordinate with external institutions to secure financing and/or up-front capital.

The objectives and methodology lay out a standardised BEEP deployment process for current and potential candidate buildings. The proposed continuous improvement process is consistent with the Plan, Do, Check, Act cycle described by ISO 50001.

The two BEEP pilot projects that have been implemented since the beginning of 2015 have proved to be very successful and have achieved significant energy and cost savings. The implementation of Performance Improvement Measures (PIMs) has resulted in:

15% Energy savings and reduction of greenhouse emissions¹

27% Lower energy expenditures²

The pilot project PIMs included air-conditioning equipment upgrades, installation of energy-use monitoring, and low-cost operational changes such as air-conditioning distribution and thermostat adjustments, building envelope sealing, and better IT system power management. These measures have allowed the facilities to capture and sustain the savings, reinvesting them to achieve continued and accelerated energy performance improvements.