Island Hall Meeting March '25

An Island Hall meeting was held on 25th March to discuss:

1. The proposal to take the existing electricity infrastructure into public ownership by Sark to carry out necessary safety and remedial work. This would be funded by a loan facility to be repaid out of the cost-per-unit. The proposed loan facility of up to £1.5m from the States of Guernsey is subject to both Chief Pleas and States of Guernsey approval. The loan repayments can be covered out of electricity sales at a unit rate of 49 – 54p.

2. Outcomes of the design stage work which has been completed within budget and will form the basis of a staged or full upgrade of Sark’s power system.

3. Next steps for Sark Community Power and how the power system would be operated once brought into Island ownership.

Speakers included: John Guille (Chair Policy and Finance Committee), Mike Locke (Chair, Future Energy (Special) Committee, Jake Burnyeat (CfR – who have managed the design stage works), Gill Jones (Infinite Renewables - who have led the generation system design work), and James Lancaster (Alderney Electricity - who have been through a process of upgrading Alderney’s electricity system and carried out an independent technical review of the design work). 

Photomontages of the proposed wind turbines from various viewpoints around the island were on display.

The speaker presentations and a summary of the meeting including transcripts of Conseiller speeches are provided below.

Sark Community Power_March Island Hall meeting summary.pdf

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SCP Electricity System_Island Hall Meeting_250325.pdf

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For more information please see the update sent out ahead of the meeting.

The design phase reports are published on the new system page.

For other questions, do please contact Policy & Finance or Future Energy by email to policy.finance@sarkgov.co.uk or special.future.energy@sarkgov.co.uk, or by letter via Committee Office, La Chasse Marette, Sark, GY10 1SE