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A large proportion of electricity on the island of San Cristobal was generated employing diesel. The island, forming part of the Galapagos Islands, was home to about 6,000 people and its fragile ecology and was especially vulnerable to oil spills during fuel transportation. Eighty-five percent of the island was part of the Galapagos National Park; the remaining 15 % was primarily agricultural land and the project was located on highlands outside the National Park area.
The e8 team approached this work with a level of caution akin to the curators responsible for da Vinci’s Mona Lisa or Michelangelo’s David.
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USA, France, Italy, Canada, Japan, Germany, and the United Kingdom (G7) with Russia (G8).
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Project Design Document, e7 Galapagos/San Cristobal Wind Power Project, UNFCCC Reference No. 1255, 25 October 2007, p. 4.
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ib. id p. 13.
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http://www.galapagoswind.org/, last accessed 9 December 2013.
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Schematic representation of the wind—diesel hybrid system on San Cristobal Island could be accessed at http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/environment/wind-power-in-paradise.
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News tab under http://www.eolicsa.com.ec/index.php?id=23, last accessed 9 December 2013.
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Sunderasan, S. (2015). San Cristobal Wind Power Project: Addressing Petrel and Diesel Conservation. In: Cleaner-Energy Investments. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2062-6_5
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