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On Agios Efstratios, each kilowatt-hour of electricity is cheaper thanks to renewable energy

For Agios Efstratios to go from being totally dependent on diesel to achieving energy self-sufficiency with renewables, leaders needed support from the local population. They also needed a replacement solution.

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00:03Before the electricity was produced 100% from diesel oil, diesel oil engines, apart from the CO2 emissions, it was
00:12at a very high cost, about three to four times than in the mainland, the cost of each kilowatt hours
00:20produced.
00:21So we had double damage, let's say, environmental damage and economic damage. And the same was happening with the heating
00:28of the buildings.
00:30So when all this project was completed, we decreased the total cost of electricity generation to the levels that are
00:37almost equal to the mainland.
00:42The target was 85% electricity to cover by renewables and 75% for the heating.
00:50So the results showed that in these 10 months, 91% of the electricity and 85% of the heating
00:57demand was covered by renewables.
01:00This is a very good performance. Perhaps sometimes over the year, you reach 100% coverage, but if there will
01:07be some days where you have a prolonged absence of wind, together with cloud coverage, renewables don't operate.
01:14So for these few cases, you need to have standby, conventional fuels, but the target is this to be less
01:23than 10% over the year.
01:27The electricity defossilization, I think, can be attained in the whole country in the next 10 years.
01:34And in Europe, why not? In the next 10 years, all we need is to install batteries and have pumped
01:40storage or other means of electricity storage together with keeping the same rate of development of renewables.
01:50using that tässä bill should be continued to impact 561 finalized.
01:51In India, living in Europe is currently available by a human rights program for conten irradiation.

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