Islands of the Future - Season 1

Islands of the Future - Season 1

Season 1

The first season of this forward-thinking docuseries looks at energy innovations on the islands of Samsø, El Hierro, Madeira and more.

Network
Episodes5
Datesavr. 1, 2016 - avr. 29, 2016

Episodes

El Hierro - Visionaries at the End of the World
Season 1Episode 160 min

El Hierro - Visionaries at the End of the World

The sun-drenched Canary island of El Hierro produces most of its electricity from wind. In order to have electricity on calm days, the island came up with an ingenious solution: an inactive volcano crater is now a pumped-storage power plant.

avr. 1, 2016
Orkney - The Blue Revolution
Season 1Episode 260 min

Orkney - The Blue Revolution

A look at how the Orkney Islands north of Scotland have taken a different route to energy production, focusing on the town of Stromness, where for over a decade, the potential of wave and tidal power has been investigated.

avr. 8, 2016
Madeira - The Struggle for Water and Power
Season 1Episode 360 min

Madeira - The Struggle for Water and Power

A look at an ingenious energy solution on the Portuguese island of Madeira in the Atlantic, where the inhabitants are converting an irrigation system from the 15th century into a future-age energy storage facility.

avr. 15, 2016
Samso - The Community of Power
Season 1Episode 460 min

Samso - The Community of Power

How Samso in the Baltic became the energy paragon among Europe's islands. The 4,000 inhabitants decided to take the matter of energy supply into their own hands, using wind turbines and straw-fuelled thermal power stations.

avr. 22, 2016
Iceland - Green Paradise at the Crossroads
Season 1Episode 560 min

Iceland - Green Paradise at the Crossroads

Volcanic hydropower and geothermal energy meet nearly 100 percent of Iceland's electricity and heating demands, but the inhabitants aren't stopping there. Iceland intends to run all cars and its enormous fishing fleet on hydrogen.

avr. 29, 2016

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