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The Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining (MSTEM) of Jamaica has set an objective to its electricity sector: generating 30% of the country’s electricity from renewable sources by 2030. Building this kind of policy requires involvement and cooperation of all major players in the sector, along to a relevant and coherent corpus of studies. The present study is the first one undertaken by the MSTEM to consider introduction of large amount of renewable energy into the electricity network. Its aim is to assess impacts of these renewables, on both investments to be made on the electricity network to maintain safe operation and levelized costs of electricity to which producers are likely to be confronted to. For this study, the MSTEM has appointed as consulting team a consortium formed by Electricité de France (EDF) and its partner Hinicio. It presents all methodological elements used by the consultant to conduct this study and all relevant results obtained by this methodology. Finally it brings a conclusion to this study, in which the consultant gives recommendations, based on this work and its own experience, for the Jamaica electricity network to accommodate Variable Renewable Energy (VRE) sources by 2030.