Bermuda’s Director of Energy Jeane Nikolai will this week take part in two Caribbean conferences on renewable energy as a guest speaker.The summits, the Jamaica Power Summit in Kingston, and the Barbados Power Summit in Bridgetown, will feature discussion about local renewable resources, managing oil use effectively and implementing clean energy practices.Some of the topics to be discussed at the conferences include FastOx waste gasification, plasma gasification technologies, wind development challenges in small island environments, the financial impact of renewables, LED street light pilot project case studies, recycling technologies and domestic refinement capacity and the potential for crude oil for Caribbean regions.Ms Nikolai said that Bermuda and the Caribbean could become the world’s epicentre of all things renewable by taking advantage of abundant wind and solar resources.“We built our tourism on our sunshine and breezes,” Ms Nikolai said. “We need to build our green economy on that same resource.”Marc Bean, Minister of Environment, Planning and Infrastructure Strategy, said attending conferences such as these give Bermuda the opportunity to chare knowledge, and to learn from other nations.“The Ministry will be receiving a full report from Ms Nikolai upon her return, as is required from any attendance to a conference, and I look forward to learning about the development of regulatory environments in other locations and also what sorts of policy initiatives worked in other countries,” Mr Bean said.