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Rum and Sargassum’s alternative automotive energy solution was featured at the recent Commonwealth Science Conference hosted by The University of the West Indies (UWI) and the Royal Society. The startup is a spinoff from a Renewable Energy Lab at UWI Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. Its commercial product is a renewable compressed natural gas (RNG) produced […]

Rum and Sargassum‘s anaerobic digestion of Sargassum seaweed with rum distillery wastewater to create biomethane to power Barbados’ vehicles move away from fossil fuels was among several innovative startups discussed at a recent virtual conference on seaweed. Titled “Seaweed Around the Clock“, the event covered several aspects of the seaweed industry. Session 19 spotlighted three

In October 2019, Dr. Henry’s project received a grant from Blue Chip Foundation to initiate 22 months of research to advance the Rum and Sargassum pilot project, overseen by The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. The grant was awarded after Dr. Legena Henry, a Renewable Energy Lecturer at UWI Cave Hill,

Rum & Sargassum Inc. has joined an incubator program that promotes cleantech entrepreneurship and the commercialization of new cleantech innovations in Barbados.  The CleanTech Cluster Barbados (BLOOM) incubator program is a project of the Global Environment Facility, jointly funded by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the Ministry of International Business and Industry and

New study suggests that expert management will be key to Barbados’ alternative energy transition success.

The Caribbean could be on to a new source of fuel to power transportation.

Called Rum and Sargassum, the new spinoff project is led by Dr. Legena Henry, a Lecturer in Renewable Energy.

Climate change and global warming are challenges that place the future of the Caribbean region in jeopardy. Specific hazards such as warming temperatures and extreme weather events place the Caribbean at higher risk, to the point of coastal communities and entire islands potentially disappearing. Caribbean nations share similar infrastructure, economic and human mobility risks to

Rum and Sargassum’s ongoing research into biofuel production grabbed the spotlight at a recent series of lectures at The University of the West Indies’ Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.   The research, supported by the Inter-American Development Bank, was the subject a recent publication titled ‘Environmental Evidence on the use of Biomethane from Rum Distillery Waste