Stuart Nathan

Isle of Wight EcoIsland founder David Green

In-Depth

An ambitious project to turn the Isle of Wight into a flagship for renewable energy generation, energy storage and smart networks could change the image of the island from one of Victorian holiday resorts to cutting-edge technology, as the founder of the scheme explains to Stephen Harris

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Founder and CEO, Ecoisland Partnership

Career

1984 – 2006, CEO, United Kingdom Sailing Academy

2006 – Present, Director, 3Greenlights consultancy

2010 – Present, Founder and CEO, Ecoisland Partnership

On a sleepy island on the south coast of England, a revolution is brewing. The Isle of Wight may be best known for sailing regattas and Victorian holiday resorts, but a new movement has begun to turn it into a showcase for cutting edge technology, and the world is taking note.

The Ecoisland project aims to make the Isle self-sufficient in renewable energy by 2020, by harnessing community enthusiasm and capitalist market forces to build its own miniature smart electricity network. Last month, delegates from island communities as far as way as Fiji and Hawaii (who attended virtually to reduce their carbon footprint) met representatives of multinational corporations including IBM and Toshiba at an international conference to learn how the Isle of Wight is carrying out its ambitious plans and how to replicate them around the globe.

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