The Green Energy Team

Energy Efficient or What?

A small town in the Scottish Hebrides has just won a green energy prize for managing to cut there yearly carbon emissions by one third in the space of a year. The town of Eigg only has 95 residents. They have installed a combined power supply that generates energy using solar, wind and hydro techniques.

The Island of Eigg

That has allowed them to massively reduce the use of gas and coal on the Island. Another plus for the residents of the Island is the fact they are almost entirely energy self efficient and no longer need to rely on gas electricity suppliers. They have even given their energy grid a cool name – Eiggtricity.

The competition was run by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. Eigg won £300,000 for there well built power grid while the other winners who received £300,000 where a small nit town in the Brecon Beacons in Wales who managed to reduce their CO2 emissions from four community dwellings and 155 houses by a whopping 20%. Another community that shared the funds was from Shropshire.

This volunteer group ran an energy efficiency project and managed to reduce CO2 emissions in the area by 10% among 460 houses. Bloody well done to the lot of them!

The total prize money for the competition was £1 million smackers.  The United Kingdom’s largest endowment fund also awarded a fourth round prize of £100,000 to a project that was run in Oxford. I would personally like to congratulate all 350 communities who took part in making our planet a cleaner place to life.