In support of the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to reduce poverty, protect the planet and ensure peace and prosperity for all by 2030, the state of Hawaii is committed to producing 2045% of its electricity from renewable sources. Already today on the island of Kauai, one of the seven inhabited islands in the northwest ...
In September 2019, Hurricane Dorian struck the northern Bahamas. It was the fifth Atlantic Category 5 hurricane in the past three years. With winds of 185mph and gusts above 200, Dorian has wreaked unimaginable chaos on the string of more than 700 islands that stretch from Florida almost to ...
In February 2020, a true renewable hybrid power plant was inaugurated on the island of Graciosa, in the Azores islands. Thanks to this new energy solution, completed by the Wärtsilä technology group, the use of renewable energy will go from 15% to 65%, in order to make the most of clean energy and meet the energy needs of over ...
A research project will be developed between the islands of Favignana and Lampedusa that aims to spread the use of renewable energy and create a virtuous energy distribution system in small communities, with the aim of encouraging interactions between producers and consumers of energy. . The project, funded by the Region of Sicily, takes the name of ...
In August 2019 the first Italian device in 1: 1 scale for the production of electricity from wave motion was officially inaugurated: the prototype, moored 800 m from the coast of the island of Pantelleria and 35 m deep, is the result of the ten-year work developed by Politecnico di Torino with the support of ...
Giardini sul mare is the name of the new intervention that Legambiente and the Unipol Group intend to implement as part of the Beauty Italy project aimed at the recovery and redevelopment of areas of our country of inestimable value and beauty and which, in this case, aims to enhance the precious landscape-agronomic heritage of Pantelleria. The objective of the new intervention will be ...
Everything is now ready for the electrification of the quay at the port of Ischia. The project envisages the allocation by Enel of a transformer cabin that will allow ships, moored during the night, to be powered by the electricity grid so as to turn off the engines and eliminate noisy emissions. The ferries that will stay at the port at night, ...
Located to the north-east of Stockholm, the island of Lidö has taken the name of Zero Island having managed to reduce its emissions by 78% compared to 2018 levels (from 180 to 40 tons of CO2 equivalent in just one year) . The Zero Island project is part of a larger work, the Journey to Zero Initiatives. It was not a question of applying ...
On 28 April 2020 Bornholm was awarded first place and € 500.000 as part of the EU's prize for renewable energy islands initiative launched in 2019 to reward the results achieved in local production from renewable energy for electricity, heating, cooling and transportation to the islands. Bornholm was awarded for the high percentage of ...
For over 10 years IbizaPreservation has been working to identify, research and support local initiatives that can have a positive impact on the environment and community of Ibiza and Formentera. A recent study by its Sustainability Observatory showed that Ibiza generated half a ton of waste per person in 2018. That's 14% more…