Student: Daphne Yuen
Graduation date: May 2017
Capstone type: Non-thesis
Capstone project:
Powering the Revolution: An Assessment of Cuba’s Renewable Energy
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By the year 2030, Cuba wants to generate 24% of its energy from renewables. Cuba’s motivation for integrating more renewable energy technology was not driven by environmental concerns, but rather a series of events that led up to their decision. With the decision to incorporate more renewables, Cuba is facing new kinds of development that could result in general trends of traditional patterns of development or move to an alternative outcome with more even distributions to individuals. My thesis examines the kinds of renewable energy projects that are being implemented in Cuba and how the benefits and access to renewable energy will be distributed to its residents, both urban and rural. In order to determine this, I created a rubric that draws general characteristics from Development and Post-Development Theory and applied them to various projects that are being implemented in Cuba.