Marks and Spencer in Douglas has become the first customer to sign up to the Manx Electricity Authority's Green Tariff.
It means the high street store can 'match' its energy usage to power generated by the MEA's Sulby Hydro-Station, which produces one per cent of the Island's electricity.
Extra profits from the Green Tarriff are ring-fenced for renewable energy projects in the Island, to reduce electricity consumption.
The authority's strategy and business development manager Dr Richard Bujko explains how it works (first part of audio file):
M&S stores throughout the United Kingdom participate in similar schemes, as part of the company's renewable energy policy, with the Douglas branch the last to be included.
Head of energy management at M&S Mervyn Bowden says it's a small contribution to green power generation in the Isle of Man (second part of audio file):
(Pictured, left to right, at the MEA's Sulby Hydro-Station: Energy contracts manager for M&S Gio Patellaro; Mervyn Bowden; MEA chairman Quintin Gill MHK; energy efficiency manager for M&S Brian Cairns; and Dr Richard Bujko).
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