Two forms of energy for touristic islands Ensuring the availability of energy is one of the topics which causes a greater concern to developed countries’ governments. This problem is even bigger when the country or region is an island, due to the inconveniences associated with the limited resources and space, the need of importing fuels and the importance of tourism in many of that places. Two of the forms of energy which are being used to overcome these troubles are nuclear power and wind turbines. On the one hand, big economies such as Japan tend to use nuclear power. It allows a sustained supply of energy thanks to the small quantity of fuel required and the possibility of storage it. In this cases nuclear power facilities can besides be placed far from the touristic places so it does not affect their attractive. However, that is not possible in small islands. A good solution for that kind of places are wind turbines. As an example it could be taken the island of El Hierro in Las Canarias, Spain. Using wind turbines, it has become the first island capable of producing all the energy needed by their inhabitants in the same year in which a greater number of tourists have visited the island. To sum up, nuclear power produces a lot of energy from little fuel, so it is a good option for big islands. Nevertheless, wind turbines should also be considered, especially in small islands, since they have been proven to produce enough energy with no impact over tourism.