Energy Statistics for Scotland – Q4 2024

Renewable electricity pipeline

As of the end of December 2024, there were 904 projects with an estimated capacity of 65.4 GW in the planning pipeline in Scotland. Of these, 640 were renewable electricity generation projects with an estimated capacity of 37.5 GW and 264 were electricity storage projects with an estimated capacity of 27.9 GW.

The technology with the most pipeline capacity is battery storage (21.0 GW), followed by offshore wind generation (16.4 GW) and onshore wind generation (14.9 GW; Figure 4).

Figure 4: 

Note - ‘other’ includes the following technologies: advanced conversion technologies; anaerobic digestion; biomass (dedicated); EfW incineration; hydrogen; landfill gas; shoreline wave; small hydro; and tidal stream.

Source – Renewable Energy Planning Database (accessed 25th March 2025)