Most residents in the area currently rely on dirty and, UNESCO School in South East Europe represents a unique educational opportunity to enhance capacity-building in sustainable energy by conveying in a single venue a substantial capital of knowledge, are being equipped with solar panels and heat pumps. This one million Euro investment is being carried out by the Government with the “know how” of Azorean electricity company EDA and Green Islands Consortium, one of the main research programmes of MIT-Portugal programme.
The first phase of the installation of solar panels is almost complete and covered nearly 40 homes on the smallest island of the Azores which are already equipped with solar powered water heating systems.
The beginning of the second phase of the process to replace butane gas consumption in kitchens and sanitary facilities is scheduled for the first quarter of 2013. Photo Gallery 110 and the Spanish Network.
