Residents in the Orkney Islands are to benefit from a new smart-control energy system linking the renewable energy generated from wind turbines to the heating systems in their homes. Around 100 households in the islands are to trial the new scheme after the Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre Development Trust received £1.2 million for its Heat Smart Orkney project from the Scottish Government’s Local Energy Challenge Fund. The project will use the excess electricity that Orkney cannot export into the UK grid because of lack of capacity and divert it to newly-installed heating devices in domestic properties.
Scottish Energy News 27th July 2016 read more »