El Hierro (Gran Canaria) 1st 100% renewable energy island

[ujoni08]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/0 ... 90587.html

'The small island of El Hierro – iron in Spanish – is located in the Canary Islands 1,500 miles off the coast of Spain. Aside from being a main tourist attraction, El Hierro will also reportedly soon become the world’s first island to run off of 100 percent renewable energy.

The renewable energy consists of an 11.5 MW wind farm and 11.3 MW hydroelectric plant that will generate around 80 percent of the island’s needs, with the remaining 20 percent produced via solar thermal collectors and grid-connected photovoltaics'.

Jon

[clv101]

I wonder what their energy and financial budgets look like if aviation and the tourism it brings are taken into account?

[ujoni08]

Very good point.
Still, it's better than not going to renewables, I guess.
Jon

[An Inspector Calls]

http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/forum/vie ... hp?t=18253

[biffvernon]

The renewable energy consists of an 11.5 MW wind farm and 11.3 MW hydroelectric plant that will generate around 80 percent of the island’s needs, with the remaining 20 percent produced via solar thermal collectors and grid-connected photovoltaics'.

I suppose when they say energy they mean electricity. In which case Iceland beat them to it a long time ago.

[An Inspector Calls]

With 20 times the population, and a sound economy, Norway is far more impressive.