WIND PARK OF KITHNOS,

GREECE

By Maria Kourti 6th Secondary School of Drama, Greece

The wind park of Kithnos is one of the first parks constructed in the world.

This park is placed close to the capital of the island and it had 5 wind turbines to collect energy. The managers of this idea started this project since 1978 but it finally finished at 1982.

This was the reason to build more wind parks at other islands that couldn’t have energy!

In the left photo we can see where the island of Kithnos is and in the right photo we can see other islands with wind parks(the islands that are coloured blue have wind parks).

THIS WIND PARK HAS: 5 wind turbines that collect about 20 kW

each.

But unfortunately a wind park can only work for 30 years, so after those years it closed because it couldn’t work that well.

Although that now it’s closed, it had achieved to cover the 75% of electricity of the whole island instead of the 25% that it was designed to cover! So we can easily say that it had worked perfectly!

But because it had stopped working, we don’t have more information about it. That doesn’t mean that it’s an unimportant building! It still remains one of the first wind parks in the world!

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References

https://www.google.gr/search?q=αιολικο+παρκο+κυθνου&espv=210&es_sm=122&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=uP50UtacK8TX0QWJyYCoDA&ved=0CD8QsAQ&biw=1366&bih=667#facrc=_&imgdii=XEDAkSJptPoLQM%3A%3B4ikHvoEdjOXpbM%3BXEDAkSJptPoLQM%3A&imgrc=XEDAkSJptPoLQM%3A%3Byct6Zt6_ahEGAM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252F4.bp.blogspot.com%252F_OPg-Kn4CzDg%252FTEAHFacUdoI%252FAAAAAAAAVgs%252Fst1lk2Txo3A%252Fs400%252FAiolika%252BParka%252BLogo%252Bfor%252BApollonasnaxou.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.greekalert.com%252F2010_07_01_archive.html%3B282%3B386

http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Αιολικό_πάρκο_Κύθνου http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_farm