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1. 1. Sustainable Energy for Islands: Opportunities versus Constraints of a 100%Renewable Electricity Systems. El Hierro (Canary Islands) and Flores (Azores) case studies

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

   Author : Beatriz Medina Warmburg; [2006]
   Keywords : renewable energy sources; 100% renewable electricity systems; holistic approach; driving forces; Environmental studies; Miljöstudier; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : Islands? characteristics provide several advantages as laboratory for studying 100% renewable energy sources (RES) systems. Their isolation makes them a ?unique laboratories, to gain knowledge and understanding of people/environment relationships? ; to prove its feasibility and acquire the needed knowledge for such systems to work; to be pioneer project, basis of other islands? projects and even a global 100%RES electricity system. READ MORE