Fossil Fuels in Cyprus? No, Olive Oil Only
The whole wide world is caught up in this race to make the world a greener place. With the rude awakening that Al Gore presented in his quirky film where he explains our ignorance of fuel emissions, among other things, has been crippling our atmosphere. Over the last few years leading countries have come together in an attempt to use less green house gases and try to make the Earth spin for at least a couple more decades.
In Cyprus it was recorded in 2008 that around 94% of the energy consumption was supplied by imported fuels. Not only is that bad for the atmosphere it does effect the island's economy greatly.
Instead of relying on a variety of international gas, oil and electricity companies to provide the countries energy the Cypriot government has decided on a campaign to introduce the use of Renewable Energy Sources (RES). By the use of RES the country can eventually cut down the cost of energy it uses and help a global cause in the process.
Cyprus is a beautiful island with great scenery and to think that it has a massive consumption of fossil fuels can be quite surprising but more so the price that they are spending on it because it has to be exported.
The proposed construction of a wind park on the island is very promising, something that the government hopes to have set up by 2010. The contribution of 2-3% to the electricity production from RES will be very much welcomed. The big plan is targeted to be completed by 2013 which will try and increase the use of RES's to the overall energy balance.
The fact that the Cyprus government feels the need to do this gives it an extra aura of cleanliness and the aims it has to clean up the islands energy use. The island has always had a healthy interest from tourists and will perhaps lure more there because of its appropriate behaviour towards energy usage.
The island hopes to create an 'Energy Centre' which will be a state of the art complex where they can store such things as oil and other fuels. It will also act as a storage facility for other islands in the region so that there is a nearby source of fuel instead of having to wait till an order is shipped in from a further destination.
You can expect many islands in the Mediterranean to follow suit because the amount they spend on energy over the year, and perhaps mainly over the summer, is costing a large amount.
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