Queen Greens Balmoral Castle
The Queen of England has made her Scottish estate, Balmoral, energy-independent by installing a small hydroelectric plant. The plant, near a stream on her estate, not only fuels her estate, but 1,000 area homes through net-metering. Balmoral is no stranger to renewables. The Queen had a water turbine as early as the 1920’s to provide electric lights to her castle, and in [...]
