Sec. 8. Support for Caribbean countries

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Congress makes the following findings: Caribbean countries, despite facing their own challenges, can play a significant role in the Caribbean region by responding to the humanitarian and political crisis in Venezuela. Energy security is a major challenge for Caribbean countries, which depend largely on high-cost imported fuel for electricity generation, and many of which have benefited from preferential treatment by Venezuela. Caribbean countries— are a market for United States products and services; have access to renewable and other energy sources; and can attract financing to develop and implement new energy technologies and approaches, with assistance and through public-private partnerships.

It is the Sense of Congress that— the Secretary of State should— strengthen the Caribbean Energy Security Initiative; and extend current programming, such as the Caribbean Sustainable Energy Road Map and Strategy; and the Secretary of State, working with the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, the Director of the United States Trade and Development Agency, and the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, should— support the Clean Energy Finance Facility for the Caribbean and Central America to encourage and facilitate regional investments in energy diversification; promote energy efficiency and integration of renewables into Caribbean energy grids; and promote United States energy missions to the Caribbean.

According to the United States-Caribbean Strategic Engagement Act of 2016 ( Public Law 114–291 ), it is the policy of the United States to increase engagement with— the governments in the Caribbean region; and the private sector and civil society in the United States and in the Caribbean.

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Support for Caribbean countries

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