2019 CREF Best Resilience Project Award
NEW ENERGY EVENTS - October 17, 2019The Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum (CREF), the largest annual gathering of the regional clean energy market, today announced nine winners of its...
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Awards
2017 CREF Best Utility Scale Wind Award
New Energy Events - October 19, 2017The Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum (CREF), the largest annual gathering of the Caribbean renewable energy market, today announced seven projects as recipients...
2016 OPIC Impact Award
OPIC - July 7, 2016The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the U.S. Government’s development finance institution, today hosted the 2016 Impact Awards at the U.S. Chamber...
Press Releases
Ocean Point Terminals and BMR Energy Partner to Repower the Marine Logistics Terminal with Solar Energy in St. Croix
August 29, 2022Ocean Point Terminals (OPT), a world-class energy logistics hub, and BMR Energy, a Virgin Group company and developer, owner and operator of...
BMR Energy Starts Construction of Costa Rica Solar Facility
BUSINESS WIRE - May 19, 2021BMR Energy announced it has started construction on its newest solar photovoltaic project, the Valle Escondido solar facility located in the municipality...
BMR Energy Rebuilds Hurricane Damaged St. Thomas Solar Farm
BUSINESS WIRE - April 8, 2021BMR Energy, a Virgin Group company and developer, owner, and operator of clean energy projects in the Caribbean and Latin America, announced...
BMR Energy’s Spanish Town Estate Solar Restoration Project Awarded Best Resilience Project at CREF 2019
October 17, 2019The St. Croix solar facility is recognized for its impact on energy infrastructure longevity in the Caribbean
BMR Energy Acquires 5-Megawatt Cayman Islands Solar Plant
BusinessWire - January 9, 2019BMR’s work in the Cayman Islands is part of BMR Energy’s and the Virgin Group’s larger vision of building resilient and renewable...
BMR Energy Purchases U.S. Virgin Islands Solar Plant Damaged in Hurricane Maria in Effort to Rebuild the Region
Businesswire - August 8, 2018Project in St. Croix will begin restoration to full generation capacity, 11 months after damage.
Sir Richard Branson and BMR Energy Call for Renewable Energy Rebuild in the Caribbean
BusinessWire - October 18, 2017Virgin Group Founder Sir Richard Branson and CEO of BMR Energy Bruce Levy will meet this week with energy industry and government...
BMR Today Inaugurates Jamaica’s Largest Private Sector Wind Farm
OPIC - August 11, 2016BMR Energy LLC today celebrates the start of operations of its 36 megawatt wind farm in Jamaica, the country’s largest private-sector renewable...
News
Storm Season Prep: Best Practices for Renewable Energy Project Resiliency
Solar Builder - August 12, 2020Earlier this summer, a study projected 16 tropical storms to hit the Caribbean and Atlantic coasts, eight of which...
Behind the Buzzword: A Brief History of Energy ‘Resiliency’
Greentech Media - January 2, 2020There’s no shortage of “resilience” talk in the energy industry, but it hasn’t always been that way. Over the last 30 years,...
Battery storage on BMR Energy radar
Bnamericas - September 30, 2019Renewable power developer BMR Energy plans to expand its footprint in the Caribbean and Central America with the implementation of a battery...
Goodwill baseball visit delivers million-dollar boost to Jamaica
Jamaica Observer - February 5, 2019Local baseball in Jamaica got a major shot in the arm last Friday, thanks to the BMR Energy/CEBF Goodwill Visit to the...
Cayman Islands project shows solar potential of hurricane-hit island nations
pv magazine - January 24, 2019Richard Branson’s BMR Energy, which was spun out of Virgin Group, develops, owns and operates clean energy projects in the Caribbean and...
Can the Electricity Industry Seize Its Resilience Moment?
Greentech Media - November 12, 2018When operators of Duke Energy's control room in Raleigh, North Carolina wait for a hurricane, the mood is often calm in the...
Solar Farm Resilience: It’s Not The Panels, It’s The Other Stuff (#CleanTechnica Interview)
CleanTechnica - August 20, 2018The island of St. Croix got slammed when hurricanes Maria and Irma crashed through Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands last...
BMR Has Big Plans for USVI Solar Energy
The St. Croix Source - August 15, 2018BMR, the company that took over St. Croix’s Spanish Town solar farm, may be doing much more solar in the territory in...
Branson’s Virgin Group Buys Storm-Damaged Caribbean Solar Farm
Bloomberg - August 7, 2018A clean-power company owned by billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Group has taken over a Caribbean solar farm that was damaged last year...
BMR looks to expand in Jamaica
Jamaica Observer - November 20, 2017President of BMR Jamaica, Bruce Levy, told Prime Minister Andrew Holness and other visitors recently that the company is now eyeing expansion...
Jamaica PM Says Island Can Produce Up To 50 Per Cent of Energy from Renewables
Caribbean 360 - November 9, 2017Prime Minister Andrew Holness says Jamaica has the potential to produce up...
Richard Branson Wants to Spearhead Efforts to Rebuild Power Grids in the Caribbean
Futurism - November 9, 2017Last month, hurricanes Irma and Maria caused widespread destruction...
Jamaica must capitalise more on renewable energy says Holness
Jamaica Observer - November 9, 2017Holness, who made the comment yesterday during a tour of BMR Jamaica Wind...
Signing of MOU Between the Sugar Company of Jamaica and BMR Energy LLC
Government of Jamaica, MIIC.gov.jm - November 8, 2017Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), Hon. Karl Samuda, speaking at the signing of...
Solar Powered Irrigation System Coming For Monymusk
The Gleaner - November 8, 2017A memorandum of understanding has been signed for the development of a solar project that will provide power...
BMR Energy CEO, Mr Bruce Levy Speaks With MNI Media On The Importance Of Renewable Energy
MNI Alive - November 3, 2017BMR Energy is a Renewable Energy company backed by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Investments.
Hurricane recovery plans for the BVI and beyond
Richard Branson Blog, Virgin.com - November 3, 2017Hurricanes Irma and Maria are still fresh in the mind of all of us who experienced them in the British Virgin Islands...
Richard Branson’s green energy plan for Caribbean may include debt relief
Reuters - October 27, 2017A plan by British billionaire Richard Branson to lead a post-hurricane rebuilding effort in the Caribbean...
Sir Richard Branson and BMR Energy Call for Renewable Energy Rebuild in the Caribbean
Caribbean 360 - October 19, 2017Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson and CEO of BMR Energy Bruce Levy will meet this week...
What It Will Take to Rebuild the Caribbean With Clean Energy
Greentech Media - October 18, 2017The devastating impacts of Hurricane Irma and Maria on energy systems in Puerto Rico...
Videos
Andrew Holness chats BMR Windfarm CEO – Bruce Levy
November 20, 2017
Richard Branson and BMR Energy call for rebuild in the Caribbean
November 8, 2017Podcasts
Dreamers and Innovators: A brighter world of clean energy
VIRGIN INVESTMENTS - April 13, 2021Holly Branson, of Virgin Group, sits down with BMR Energy's Bruce Levy to discuss renewable energy in the Caribbean and Latin America,...
Pip Decker, Senior Vice President at BMR Energy
The Climate Champions - September 15, 2019Pip Decker, Senior Vice President at BMR Energy, leads development, construction and operation of wind and solar generation projects. Prior, Pip owned...
Richard Branson Bought His Company – Bruce Levy of BMR Energy
SunCast Podcast - November 1, 2018Our CEO, Bruce Levy, joined host Nico Johnson for an episode of SunCast Podcast. Tune in to hear insight on the current...