{"id":14490,"date":"2015-03-13T16:44:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T15:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.sma-sunny.com\/?p=14490"},"modified":"2015-03-13T16:44:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T15:44:01","slug":"video-how-tokelau-switched-to-solar-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/en\/video-how-tokelau-switched-to-solar-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: How Tokelau Switched to Solar Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Video: How Tokelau Switched to Solar Energy\" style=\"width:1280px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe hidef\" id=\"WYL_6dEFPws4BiQ\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/6dEFPws4BiQ\/maxresdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6dEFPws4BiQ\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT4M21S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2015-03-13T15:30:55Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_6dEFPws4BiQ\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/6dEFPws4BiQ\/maxresdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Video: How Tokelau Switched to Solar Energy<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6dEFPws4BiQ\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/6dEFPws4BiQ\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Video: How Tokelau Switched to Solar Energy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"700\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Tokelau is one of the world\u2019s most remote countries \u2013 and the first to generate its energy supply using only photovoltaics. The island nation consists of three small atolls in the South Pacific Ocean, north of Samoa, and can only be reached by boat. For a long time, the islanders relied almost exclusively on diesel generators to meet their electricity needs. This was expensive and accounted for the most of pollution in the area. The electricity supply was far from reliable, with intermittent blackouts. However, 2012 Tokelau became the first country in the world with an energy supply based fully on photovoltaics. At one megawatt of power, the entire facility is the largest inverter dominated solar off-grid system in the world. The plants generate more energy than the 1,411 inhabitants of Tokelau need. SMA is proud to play a role in bringing a sustainable energy supply to this beautiful island nation. ----- SMA Solar Technology AG - http:\/\/www.sma-solar.com SMA Corporate Blog - http:\/\/en.SMA-Sunny.com SMA on Facebook - http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SMAInternational SMA on Twitter - http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/SMAsolar Contact - SocialMedia@SMA.de SMA Solar Technology AG is a global leader in the development, production and sales of PV inverters and, as an energy management group, offers innovative key technologies for future power supply structures.\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:1280px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Tokelau is one of the world\u2019s most remote countries \u2013 and the first to generate its energy supply using only photovoltaics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The island nation consists of three small atolls in the South Pacific Ocean, north of Samoa, and can only be reached by boat. For a long time, the islanders relied almost exclusively on diesel generators to meet their electricity needs. This was expensive and accounted for the most of pollution in the area. The electricity supply was far from reliable, with intermittent blackouts. However, 2012 Tokelau became the first country in the world with an energy supply based fully on photovoltaics. At one megawatt of power, the entire facility is the largest inverter dominated solar off-grid system in the world. The plants generate more energy than the 1,411 inhabitants of Tokelau need.<\/p>\n<p>SMA is proud to play a role in bringing a sustainable energy supply to this beautiful island nation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>More information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SMA Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/en.sma-sunny.com\/2012\/11\/23\/tokelau-the-first-country-with-100-solar-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tokelau \u2013 The First Country With 100 % Solar Energy Supply <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"kk-star-ratings kksr-auto kksr-align-left kksr-valign-bottom\"\n    data-payload='{&quot;align&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;14490&quot;,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;valign&quot;:&quot;bottom&quot;,&quot;ignore&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;reference&quot;:&quot;auto&quot;,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;count&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;legendonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;readonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;score&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;starsonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;best&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;gap&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;greet&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;legend&quot;:&quot;0\\\/5 - (0 votes)&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;22&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Video: How Tokelau Switched to Solar Energy&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;_legend&quot;:&quot;{score}\\\/{best} - ({count} {votes})&quot;,&quot;font_factor&quot;:&quot;1.25&quot;}'>\n            \n<div class=\"kksr-stars\">\n    \n<div class=\"kksr-stars-inactive\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"1\" style=\"padding-right: 1px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 22px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"2\" style=\"padding-right: 1px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 22px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"3\" style=\"padding-right: 1px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 22px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"4\" style=\"padding-right: 1px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 22px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"5\" style=\"padding-right: 1px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 22px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n<div class=\"kksr-stars-active\" style=\"width: 0px;\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 1px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 22px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 1px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 22px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 1px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 22px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 1px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 22px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 1px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 22px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n                \n\n<div class=\"kksr-legend\" style=\"font-size: 17.6px;\">\n            <span class=\"kksr-muted\"><\/span>\n    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<div class='printomatic pom-default ' id='id8617'  data-print_target='article'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: How Tokelau Switched to Solar EnergyWatch this video on YouTube Tokelau is one of the world\u2019s most remote countries&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":14504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[768,373,79],"class_list":["post-14490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-apac","tag-off-grid","tag-sunny-island"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Video: How Tokelau Switched to Solar Energy - Sunny. 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