Although being among the least responsible for climate change, islands are in great threat due to it. The decarbonisation of the power system arises as a key factor to ensure adaptation and mitigation to it. Islands' characteristics make renewable electrification a challenge. Most islands are isolated systems with low levels of inertia that require stability for ensuring security of supply. Therefore, the potential of smart grids and flexible resources must be fully exploited to ensure a viable integration of renewable energy sources. In this vein, it is necessary to evolve the system including demand response, batteries and electric transport to increase the share of renewables. However, all these elements require a reliable communication architecture to be deployed. A communication architecture is hereby presented and applied to Galapagos for exploiting flexible resources. Different protocols have been selected to interoperate flexible resources integrated on the system. Each of them tries for each application to standardise and ensure the largest functionalities available. The deployment of smart grids in islands can reduce their carbon footprint as it is validated with a case study in Santa Cruz, Galapagos. This system proves to ensure the energy balance in a viable way, in technical, economic and environmental terms. operated in radial form to feed the large customers and small customers in low voltage (LV) [1]. However, the new time in the power sector are characterised by a large increment in the renewable generation. The main technologies are solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind generation. This generation can be concentrated in medium/large capacity plants or be very distributed. The so-called distributed generation (DG) is much smaller in size (commonly some tens to hundreds of kilowatts) and is usually connected to LV or medium voltage (MV). This generation can be owned by companies or individual customers that may also install some small generation. Moreover, the electrification of transport and the rise of information and communication technology are increasing the possibility to take advantage of customer's flexibility in the consumption by dynamically trading their demand response resources [2,3]. This new power system paradigm is usually referred as the smart grid (SG) as it allows the integration of all these "active" elements (including customers) in the physical system (grid) and new trading mechanisms and markets (mainly retail) [4,5]. The concept is gaining importance as the solution for the future power system [6]. However, it is essential a proper operation and control, which is intended to be automatic through SG controllers, using the resources offered by generators and customers directly or through intermediate agents such as load aggregators or generation aggregators, usually referred as virtual power plants (VPP) too [7].The requirements for building these SG are as follows:• Reliability: they have to be more reliable than the traditional power systems. This has to be accomplishing providi...