Energy Statistics for Scotland – Q4 2025

Renewable electricity capacity

Scotland’s capacity for electricity generation from renewable sources has continued to increase. As of the end of 2025, there was 17.9 GW of operational capacity – a 3.2% increase compared to 17.3 GW at the end of 2024 and a 129.8% increase compared to 7.8 GW at the end of 2015 (Figure 2).

The technologies with the largest capacity growth between 2024 and 2025 were fixed offshore wind (0.2 GW increase) and onshore wind (0.2 GW increase).

Figure 2:

Note - ‘other’ includes the following technologies: shoreline wave/tidal; landfill gas; sewage sludge digestion; energy from waste; animal biomass; and anaerobic digestion.

Source – Energy Trends table 6.1: Renewable electricity capacity and generation (published 2nd April 2026)