An innovative generation system capable of supplying the island of Graciosa with electricity based on renewal energies started to be tested in Berlin by the German company Younicos.

The experience, carried out in a small-scale model, will be extended for two years, and its launching took place in Germany today. The Regional Director for Energy, Cabral Vieira, attended this event on behalf of the President of the Government.

According to Cabral Vieira, the test involves equipments to generate wind and photovoltaic energy, as well as a simulator of the electricity consumption on that Central Group Island, with little more than five thousand inhabitants.

Two high-end Japanese batteries with a large capacity to store energy will also be part of this test.
With this experience, the Younicos’s researchers intend to demonstrate that it is possible to generate nearly the total electricity needs on islands with the same size of Graciosa using renewable energies.

For Cabral Vieira, the renewable energies are one of the Government’s main priorities, not only on Graciosa, which may take advantage of this German experience, but also on islands such as Flores, using the water resources, and Santa Maria, using solar and wind energies.