Energy

Have Your Say: DTAS Consultation on Community Benefit Funds

DTAS invites all Full and Provisional members to an engaging online event to share your views on the Scottish Government’s Community Benefits from Net Zero Energy Developments Consultation.

Community benefits from renewables: give us your views!

Have Your Say on Community Benefits from Renewables!

Scotland’s commercial renewable energy projects can bring community benefit funds—but are they fair? The Scottish Government is updating its guidance, with a consultation open, and your input is needed.

Webinar: Community benefits from renewable energy developments

Community benefits are additional benefits that renewable energy developers provide to communities to enable them to share in the benefits of renewable energy projects. Community benefits schemes are well established and saw over £30 million offered by renewables developers in community benefits in the last 12 months.

Ambitious plans to create a major new renewables hub in Orkney have been accelerated with a £5 million grant to help take the project to the next stage.

The funding will further the development of a new harbour facility for the assembly of offshore wind turbines at Scapa Flow - the largest natural harbour in the northern hemisphere.

Communities across the country will benefit from £9 million Scottish Government funding for measures to help cut energy costs and support the development of locally-owned renewable energy projects.

Research into existing models of community climate action hubs in the UK and internationally has been publised by Scottish Government. 

Operational renewable energy projects across Scotland have now committed over £30 million worth of community benefits to communities in the last 12 months.

Policy Workshop: A Fair Energy Deal for Scottish Communities

With so much going on in the energy arena, including fuel poverty and price spikes, the renewables boom, GB Energy plans, and growing concern about pylons and battery storage, it’s time to call for a Fair Energy Deal for Communities, as a key pillar of a just transition and community wealth building.

With many farming and crofting families worrying about the cost of heating their homes this winter, RSABI is reminding the agricultural community about its 'Help for Heating' grants which have increased to £400 this year.  

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