Tilos Is The First Greek Island To Run On Renewable Energy

Starting in May 2017, Tilos island, located in the Dodecanese, will be the first island in Greece and the Mediterranean to run completely on renewable energy.

 

Tilos received permission from the Regulatory Authority for Energy to set up a hybrid energy production and storage station, which is expected to cover 85 percent of the island’s energy needs. The energy production and storage station will also provide the island of Kos with 400kW in power for 5 hours a day.

The project is part of the EU’s Horizon 2020 plan called TILOS, which stands for Technology Innovation for the Local Scale Optimum Integration of Battery Storage) and involves 15 stakeholders from 7 European countries. The project is led by a research team from the Laboratory of Soft Energy Applications and Environmental Protection at Piraeus University of Applied Sciences.

The TILOS program stood out among 80 other competing companies in the Horizon 2020, which is EU’s largest research and innovation program with about 80 billion euros in funding. The funds will be spread out over a period of 7 years, which started in 2014.

Tilos is currently powered by a submarine cable from Kos.

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