Put it like this it must take a lot of gas to heat a palace. yes, yes. but i have tried for a very long time to make sure the heating is done in a way that is as sustainable as possible. so you use trees from the estate? yes. it s woodchip. but it is thinning. but that is one way and then the solar panels which i ve managed to get on to clarence house and at highgrove on some of the farm buildings and every kind of thing like that, and sauce, pumps, here and there. trying to reduce as much possible. i ve got electric cars, i can t do it single handedly. you are a bit of a clarkson, jeremy clarkson, a bit of a petrol head.
Household heating here comes from the bio gas atlanta or the woodchip. our electricity is produced by the wind. but when it doesn t generate enough current there s no wind or something s broken down in the bio gas plant can take over right away. construction began in two thousand and nine really it s got its own electricity grid and heating pipes since then thousands of visitors from around the world have come to find out about energy self-sufficiency. you know you want the visitors find this or that most interesting depending on the region they come from the feedback we get from visitors from africa is that the photovoltaic facility would be interesting to supply power to remote villages there may be areas that have no electricity today a photovoltaic array would be very hopeful for that. the energy turnaround has created jobs in the village families have moved in. there s