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the energy and potable water requirements of the village [J.A. Carta, 2003]. The<br />

participants in this project were the Municipality of Pajara, the Water <strong>Co</strong>uncil at<br />

Fuerteventura Island, the Secretary <strong>for</strong> Industry (Canary Islands Regional<br />

Government), the University of Las Palmas and IER-CIEMAT (Spanish Ministry of<br />

Industry and Energy). The project is focused on the basic elements <strong>for</strong> living in a<br />

community.<br />

The difficulties of a fishermen’s community, without power mains, have turned, by<br />

means of this project, into an increase of the living standards through a full-self<br />

supply of:<br />

• Drinkable water, through a RO plant powered by wind energy<br />

• Energy self-supply through a wind-diesel system isolated grid<br />

• Improvement of the economic conditions of the fishermen with an ice<br />

generation plant and a cold-storage plant to freeze fish. These plants are also<br />

powered by a wind diesel system.<br />

Be<strong>for</strong>e this project each house had a diesel generator <strong>for</strong> its own energy<br />

consumption. The water was supplied by a truck to the village from a town 30 km<br />

away, at a price of 3 €/m 3 .<br />

The technological complex is located to one side of the village, by the sea and at the<br />

same time sufficiently distant from the inhabited zone as to avoid the sound impact<br />

caused by the diesel generators and the wind driven generator itself. The area<br />

chosen <strong>for</strong> the plant and equipment facilities was conceived as an enclosed circular<br />

site, architecturally in harmony with its surroundings, and consists of a wind driven<br />

generator, and five buildings to house the control equipment, a generating plant<br />

consisting of 2 diesel generator sets with flywheels, a desalination plant an a freezer<br />

and ice-making plant.<br />

The design specifications, which were drawn up established:<br />

• the need to produce all the required potable water through the use of<br />

electrical energy drawn exclusively from a wind energy source<br />

• the need <strong>for</strong> a maximum reliability of the energy supply, and a minimum use<br />

of the diesel generator sets<br />

b. System Description<br />

The system consists of a 225 kW wind energy converter and two 160 KVA diesel<br />

engines with flywheel and synchronous generator of 75 kVA each, to produce<br />

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