Success of a global renewable energy project on Ecuador’s Galapagos archipelago has boosted sustainable development, according to a GSEP report. What does GSEP stand for?

a. Global Sea Electricity Power

b. Global Sustainability Electricity Power

c. Global Sustainable Electricity Partnership

d. None of the above

ANSWER: Global Sustainable Electricity Partnership

Explanation:

Success of global renewable energy project on Ecuador’s Galapagos archipelago has provided a major boost to sustainable development as per a report. Meeting 30 percent of local energy needs, the US $10 million San Cristobal Wind Project reduced the GHG emissions and preserved critically endangered species according to a report released by Global Sustainable Electricity Partnership.

GSEP is a NPO with 11 of the world’s foremost electricity firms.

Initiative has displaced 8.7 million litres of diesel fuel and avoided 21,000 tonnes of CO2.

Project’s three 51 metre tall wind turbines and two set of solar panels have been supplied on an average , 30 percent of electricity consumed on San Cristobal- the archipelago’s second largest island in size and population and went into operation in October 2007.

GSEP has recommended the project’s expansion to further boost the renewable energy share to 70 percent.

The Galapagos is an archipelago of 19 islands in the Pacific Ocean 1000 km off the coast of Ecuador has exotic plants and animal species and famed as a site of Charles Darwin’s research of the evolution of species by natural selection.

Some of the islands have a growing population economically supported by thriving tourism.