You can’t fail to notice on the way from Arrecife airport to Sands Beach Resort hotel in Costa Tequise, old windmills, new turbines and artistic wind sculptures on the horizon. These are just signs of the respect that the island people show to their environment, and it is an attitude happily shared by Sands Beach Resort as they look after their holiday guests and the wider world.

Remains of the flour grinding windmills can be seen across the island as well as working examples of windpumps, most notably in the salt pans of Janubio, down near Playa Blanca and the El Charco salt pans between Arrecife and Costa Tequise, El Charco is also the site of one of the first desalination plants in the world.

Clean, modern power

In recent years, power producing wind turbines have appeared in 2 sites in Lanzarote. Monte Mina, in San Bartolome, a short breeze from Costa Tequise, has 5 vesta style wind turbines, but the main site is in the north at the Parque Eolico (wind park) in Los Valles, Haria, near the valley of the 1,000 palm trees. This park has 48 varied types of turbine and makes a strong input into the island power supply.

Lanzarote is a very forward looking island and Sands Beach Resort is proud to play it’s part, it holds a Biosphere Hotel certificate, presented by the Institute of Responsible Tourism. That’s a comforting thought as you relax on your sunbed.