Chief
executive
David
Green
claims
that
self-sufficiency
is
feasible
with
smart-grid
technologies
delivering
40%
savings
in
energy
use
across
the
380sq-km
island.
The
strategy
aims
to
use
smart
grids
to
reduce
peak
demand
from
167MW
to
120MW,
while
a
proposed
tidal
array
could
provide
up
to
20MW,
and
the
local
solar
sector
could
have
its
capacity
nearly
doubled
to
more
than
70MW.
“We
have
already
got
40MW
of
solar
with
hardly
anyone
noticing.
So
all
this
talk
about
‘unsightly
wind
turbines’
is,
I
think,
an
unnecessary
distraction,”
says
Green.
A
combination
of
tidal-stream
generators,…
