Kythnos Smart Island Κυθνος Εξυπνο νησι

Kythnos has a rich history of the adoption of sustainable energy applications, starting from the installation of the first wind park in Europe in 1982, followed by a series of RES and storage installations subsequently resulting in 2000 to a fully automated intelligent power system largely powered by local wind and solar potential. In addition, one of the first microgrids was developed in 2001 in Gaidouromandra, a rural off-grid area in the south, adding invaluable knowledge to the scientific community and industry on the operation of such systems. After a decade of limited system upgrades, largely due to the instability caused by a long transition to the unbundling of the electricity market, 2015 saw the gradual rebirth of Kythnos as a sustainability living lab in the frame of the WiseGRID project and the eventual launch of the “Kythnos Smart Island” large scale project in 2019.