Los Guinchos power station on La Palma

The total population of the island of La Palma is apparently about 80000. That's 20000 less than Carlisle. How do you power an island that is a long way from anywhere? There is a small power station down by the harbour at Santa Cruz. Here it is photographed from our ship. I've had to work hard to find information. I realised that searching in English wasn't a bright idea but I don't speak Spanish yet, so online translator help later ... http://endrino.pntic.mec.es/jhem0027/centralescanarias.htm http://www.initec-energia.es/section3.cfm?id=3&side=134&t_id=134&rid=69&lang=en http://www.initec-energia.es/section3.cfm?id=3&side=134&t_id=134&rid=82&lang=en The suggestion is that there have been a lot of small oil powererd generators patched together and that the total output might be around 50MW. Given that Bothel wind farm near here is supposed to be 10MW... The power grid must work at a much lower voltage because the insulators on the overhead lines were much smaller than I'm used to.