Guillermo Galván García aims to increase the island’s dependency on clean energy, while mitigating the environmental impact of turbine installations. “Keeping an eye on turbines is crucial, particularly on an island as windy and tropical as Tenerife,” says Guillermo Galván García, the coordinator of the Spanish island of Tenerife wind energy department at ITER. “There’s a lot of humidity and salt from the sea, as well as sand from the Sahara Desert.” He and his team have installed 28 wind turbines on the site in this photo — but the focus should not just be on building more, he says. “Renewable energies should be seen as a tool, but they’re not the only answer to society’s energy problems,” he notes. “The cleanest energy of all is that which we don’t consume.”
On assignment for Nature, for the section Where I Work.
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