Selected Principal Experience

Energy, infrastructure and climate-transition experience grounded in delivery.

The examples below reflect Mark D. Williams' career and advisory experience, including assignments delivered through 8Palms and prior institutional or consulting roles. They are presented to demonstrate relevant capability without implying that every assignment was an 8Palms engagement.

Experience profile

From national policy and procurement to project development and regional advisory.

Experience spans technical and economic feasibility, project development, procurement, policy and regulatory analysis, stakeholder coordination, implementation oversight and commissioning across Jamaica and the wider Caribbean.

Selected examples are intentionally concise. Client and institutional references are used only where they are supported by the Founder-provided professional record.

Selected assignments

Representative principal experience.

Green hydrogenJamaica / regional initiative

Green Hydrogen Economy Readiness — Jamaica

Assignment context: United Nations Environment Programme / Green Climate Fund Readiness.
Role: Hydrogen Consultant.
Scope: National baseline assessment; policy, regulatory and market analysis; stakeholder working-group support; investment-condition analysis; national strategy and implementation-action planning; workshops and regional knowledge exchange.
Contribution: Supported Jamaica's green-hydrogen readiness work and development of national strategic goals, policy recommendations and an implementation action plan.

Energy infrastructure procurementJamaica

Utility-Scale Energy Infrastructure Procurement Programme

Assignment context: Government of Jamaica electricity-generation procurement programme.
Role: Public-sector energy advisory and ex-officio electricity-generation procurement governance.
Scope: Strategy, policy and coordination; government and technical-team engagement; implementation oversight and site visits; legislative and regulatory input affecting large-scale electricity infrastructure procurement.
Contribution: Supported a programme associated with approximately 371 MW of clean-energy generation capacity, including approximately 71 MW of renewable energy.

Utility-scale solarJamaica

Development of Up to 100 MW Utility-Scale Solar Project

Client type: Private-sector renewable-energy developer.
Role: Early-stage project-development and advisory support.
Scope: Site identification; solar, land, geotechnical and grid pre-feasibility; EPC and supplier assessment; investor, government and stakeholder coordination.
Contribution: Supported early-stage development and feasibility work for a utility-scale solar project with planned capacity of up to 100 MW.

Regional renewable energyEastern Caribbean

Regional Renewable Energy Infrastructure Facility — ECCU

Assignment context: World Bank / Synergy Consulting.
Role: Infrastructure and renewable-energy advisory support.
Scope: Reviewed barrier analysis and facility design; developed a work programme; conducted risk, policy and regulatory analysis across six ECCU countries; advised on financing-mechanism design.
Contribution: Provided technical and strategic inputs supporting the design of a regional renewable-energy infrastructure facility.

Additional depth

Broader technical and implementation experience.

Technical and economic review of a 39-site solar PV proposal, including demand assessment, system-capacity review, modelling and financial analysis.
Engineering, procurement and delivery management across approximately 50 residential, commercial and industrial renewable-energy projects.
Development and management of 13 renewable-energy and demand-side-management projects, including tendering, evaluation, monitoring and commissioning.
Technical-policy roles supporting sustainable transport, electric mobility, charging infrastructure and grid integration.

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