Scottish isle hails as first 100 percent self-sustaining place on Earth

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This is a pretty cool story about a little island where everyone ran diesel generators until about 2008 when they started adding renewable energy and an actual grid on the island.

Scottish isle hails as first 100 percent self-sustaining place on Earth

It all began back around 2008 when the European Union and various national bodies decided to fund the development of an energy infrastructure on Eigg, which previously had no steady source of electric power. Nearly all of the island's roughly 100 residents relied upon noisy diesel generators that were not only expensive to fuel but highly polluting -- the antithesis of renewable energy, as diesel for these many generators had to be shipped in from the mainland at high cost.