{"id":26715,"date":"2023-07-28T09:10:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T07:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.victronenergy.com\/blog\/?p=26715"},"modified":"2023-07-28T09:10:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T07:10:31","slug":"caribbeans-greenest-island-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.victronenergy.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/28\/caribbeans-greenest-island-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"Caribbean’s Greenest Island Vacation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Herv\u00e9 Nizard<\/em> has been building his tropical eco resort on the unspoiled Caribbean island of Dominica in an unhurried way.<\/p>\n

Using natural materials, work began at Citrus Creek Plantation<\/a> in 2008 and now features twelve buildings – including a restaurant offering french cuisine – and accommodation for up to 25 guests.<\/p>\n

Visitors who love nature and tranquility are treated to freshly-prepared produce, home-grown on the 20 acre plantation, including mango, coconuts, guava, papaya, and bananas. Vanilla and Cocoa are grown for export.<\/p>\n

Dominica is jungle, but without dangerous animals …so you can walk barefoot on the banks of the Taberi river (alongside which Citrus Creek Plantation is situated) or explore further afield to waterfalls, the second largest boiling lake in the world, or take a walk around any one of Dominica’s nine volcanoes.<\/div>\n
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Cottages built from stone and timber are powered solar energy to run low-demand eco devices such as ‘A’ rated refrigerators which use a miserly 300Wh – per day<\/span>, ceiling fans offer comfort instead of high-draw air conditioners, and spring water is pumped on demand. Last year, wind and solar met 99% of the eco-resorts power demand.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Herv\u00e9 has a unique advantage when it comes to designing sustainable energy systems – his company Sustainable Earth Inc.<\/a> is also the island’s distributor for off-grid and grid-tied private power systems with 140 installations under their belt.<\/p>\n

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Sustainable Earth solar lab is located within Citrus Creek Plantation property . This is where Sustainable Earth stores their inventory, and tests solar products and is also where Sustainable Earth Inc prepares, pre-wires and mounts the solar systems which are to be installed by their island customers.<\/p>\n

The Citrus Creek Plantation solar system is designed as a Mini grid – but with a grid connection: Three solar installations radiate from Citrus Creek Plantation’s main hub, which is connected to the Grid using Grid-Assist with Virtual Switch settings on VEConfigure<\/a>.<\/p>\n