Eigg Electric commissioned Synergie Scotland to manage the whole project in August 2005.

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John Booth, director of Eigg Electric, who has been the co-ordinator of the project, said it was one of the achievements following a community buy-out of the isle in 1997.

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Eigg for example has its own renewable energy system so there is no external power, and a number of islands, because of their very strong winds, have a very strong renewable energy programme which works for them economically as well as physically and ethically.

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