Also belonging to the Fiji archipelago, the Beqa Island extends for 36 km² and is home to 3.000 inhabitants. It has reached the 100% renewable goal, making itself self-sufficient in terms of energy. In 2013 the diesel generator was replaced by a mini-grid based on photovoltaics and batteries, capable of producing 20 MWh / year. The project was funded by a ...
It is the largest island of the Manu'a group, with its 44,31 km² and 600 inhabitants, it is the easternmost of Samoa, in the Pacific Ocean. The island, in 2016, built a micro-grid based on the best available technology, which allowed it to achieve energy self-sufficiency. It is made up of 5.328 SolarCity photovoltaic modules that produce 1,4 ...
In the Brass Strait, off the northwestern tip of Tasmania, is King Island, which extends over 1000 km² and is home to 2000 inhabitants. Since 2013, it guarantees 65% of energy needs (7,8 GWh), thanks to renewable sources, and on days of intense wind it reaches 100% (12 GWh). In particular…
Belonging to the British archipelago of the Hebrides islands, in Scotland, 30,49 km² of surface with a population of 83 inhabitants. The community made a precise choice of sustainability by deciding not to invest economic resources in a long and expensive submarine cable that would have connected it to the mainland, but to exploit the energy potential from renewable sources of ...
A “minor” neighbor of the Isle of Eigg, Muck is the smallest inhabited island of the Northern Inner Hebrides, with an extension of just 5,59 km²; with its 40 inhabitants it is at great risk of depopulation. The island is energy self-sufficient even though it is not connected to the mainland, producing 30 kW of wind energy and 33 kW of solar energy, with ...
With an area of 268,71 km², it is the smallest of the Canary archipelago, located west of the North African coast, in the Atlantic Ocean. Since 2000 it has been recognized by UNESCO as a "Biosphere Reserve". The island boasts a world record: it is the first island in the world to have achieved double water and energy autonomy thanks to an integrated system ...
