1
Electrify Guernsey, drive the Island and economy by 100% renewables, by 2034.
2
Enhance biodiversity and maintain the open spaces of our countryside.
3
Empower businesses, organisations and individuals by generating their own power.
The Mission
A Zero-Zero approach
If it is no longer acceptable to dump carbon, sulphurs and nitrous oxides into the atmosphere, it can no longer be acceptable to put nuclear radionuclides into our seas, rivers, food and air.
The greatest global challenge humanity has ever faced is to transit the planet from the sunsets of fossil and nuclear-fuelled power to renewable energy.
Our local challenge is make the transition by electrifying heating and transport, powered by renewables.
We are well-placed to achieve these objectives. We are surrounded by the vast nexus of renewable energy available from the sun, the sea, the wind and the tides. Not only can we power ourselves from these resources but we can export energy to Europe and beyond.
The time is now
Our vision of a clean-tech powered Guernsey has to happen in the next 15 years. There are a raft of immediately available economic technologies are right now such solar photovoltaics, storage, offshore wind and hydrogen production, all of which are advancing in nature daily. Some other important renewable technology is due to come on line soon, such as tidal power. If we lag behind the rest of the world we will rely on buying in someone else’s renewable energy. Our economy and lifestyle will be under threat in that case. If we voluntarily shut down our fossil-fuels system we prevent external pressures and laws doing it for us.
The greatest challenge is the ‘skills gap’. This is a global issue as well as a local issue and its one of many items on the ‘tick list’ to address. As well as providing a conduit into energy engineering for many types of peoples and skills we must be efficient, effective and highly-automated.
Just the start
Growing more of our own food and making greater use of our agricultural land is a massive part of sustainability and part of our vision. And doing this without the use of petroleum products and pesticides. Eradicating plastics from our business-cycle, encouraging our suppliers to take a cradle-to-cradle approach. Treating each other with decency and equality – all these things form part of our organisation philosophy. Being part of a learning culture and community with aspirations of freedom from the burdens of what has become modern life with the objective of enabling every individual to be creative and fulfil their life dreams.
A positive reputation for Guernsey
When travellers, both business and tourists come to our island, they will not marvel at our technological achievements, they will be happy that they have arrived at destination that has no less an empowered society than the one they arrived from. And if we can make our renewables aesthetically pleasing at the same and enhance happiness, health and education, we will have achieved something very worthwhile.
When visitors fly into our island or approach from the sea we must create a visually attractive, stunning transition to clean energy, such that looking down from the air across fields of great looking solar architecture one is impressed. That with locally sourced foods and beverages, great-looking transport systems and buildings, with beautiful countryside as well as beautiful natural coastal features, combined and forward-thinking ideologies. That will what will make the difference for us in the world and maintain our attractiveness as a people and business destination and make us locals feel good about our home.