Excerpt from news.sky.com
The residents of Rathlin Island – six miles off the coast of Northern Ireland – are hoping to demonstrate that carbon neutrality can be achieved much quicker.
Rathlin wasn’t connected to the electricity grid until 2007 but the 150 islanders aim to produce their own wind and wave energy by the end of this decade.
If it can be achieved at this remote location on the end of the grid, they say it can be achieved anywhere, and well ahead of targets set in both the UK and Ireland.
Michael Cecil, who chairs the Rathlin Development and Community Association, said: “There’s great possibilities now with hydrogen-fuelled ferries and we can produce hydrogen on Rathlin so that achieves two goals.
“It reduces our carbon footprint, hopefully to zero, but it also gives us some security in that we’re generating our own energy and retailing our own energy.”
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