Chief Pleas agrees to spend £175,000 on new electric grid project
Sark Chief Pleas has agreed to spend £175,000 on working up designs for a new electricity grid.
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Sark Chief Pleas has agreed to spend £175,000 on working up designs for a new electricity grid.
Chief Pleas voted to spend a quarter of its current reserves on designs for the project.
SARK’S conseillers will next week decide whether to push ahead with renewable energy options for the island, after the islanders positively received the scheme.
At a public meeting, a top politician expressed doubt over two competing grids working in future.
Sark Electricity Ltd has said it is surprised that the island’s government appears to be seeking talks with Guernsey about borrowing more than £8m. for a controversial new electricity grid.