{"id":81912,"date":"2018-08-19T15:22:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T22:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/renewable-resort-greek-island-to-run-on-wind-solar-power"},"modified":"2018-08-19T15:22:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T22:22:54","slug":"renewable-resort-greek-island-to-run-on-wind-solar-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/renewable-resort-greek-island-to-run-on-wind-solar-power","title":{"rendered":"Renewable resort: Greek island to run on wind, solar power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The innovative 800-kilowatt wind turbine is an effort to protect the environment and attract tourism.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>TILOS, Greece (AP) \u2014 When the blades of its 800-kilowatt wind turbine start turning, the small Greek island of Tilos will become the first in the Mediterranean to run exclusively on wind and solar power.<\/p>\n<p>The sea horse-shaped Greek island between Rhodes and Kos has a winter population of 400. But that swells to as many as 3,000 people in the summer, putting an impossible strain on its dilapidated power supply.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, technicians are conducting the final tests on a renewable replacement system that will be fully rolled out later this year. It will allow Tilos to run exclusively on high-tech batteries recharged by a wind turbine and a solar park.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.businessinsider.com\/ap-renewable-resort-greek-island-to-run-on-wind-solar-power-2018-8\">http:\/\/uk.businessinsider.com\/ap-renewable-resort-greek-isla...2018&#45;8<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The innovative 800-kilowatt wind turbine is an effort to protect the environment and attract tourism. TILOS, Greece (AP) \u2014 When the blades of its 800-kilowatt wind turbine start turning, the small Greek island of Tilos will become the first in the Mediterranean to run exclusively on wind and solar power. The sea horse-shaped Greek island [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}