Scottish Government Just Transition Fund payments: EIR release

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Please could you tell me, broken down by each payment, each business and each year, how much has been paid out by the Scottish Government's Just Transition Fund since it was first announced in 2022.

Response

Please find below a detailed breakdown of the annual payments made to projects financed by the Just Transition Fund. It is important to note that all funds disbursed to date through the Just Transition Fund encompass academic institutions, third sector entities (including charities, social enterprises, and not-for profit organizations), as well as local authorities.

Fund	Recipient / Organisation	Project	Description	Year	Total Award	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25
Just Transition Fund	Robert Gordon University	Digital Innovation Lab	Digital Innovation Lab initially supporting the construction sector to decarbonise before addressing challenges across a range of sectors.	2022 - 2024	£1.34 million	£313,982.04	£1,026,495.42
Just Transition Fund	The James Hutton Institute	HydroGlen	Green hydrogen farming pilot to acquire new knowledge to switch from increasingly high levels of fuel poverty to self reliant, net-zero carbon energy producers in rural communities.	2022 - 2026	£6.218 million	£262,270.09	£1,248,412.94	£1,987,031
Just Transition Fund	The James Hutton Institute	Just Transition Hub	Net zero innovation hub with a land-use and agriculture focus, located within the grounds of the James Hutton Institute (Hutton) campus in Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen.	2022 - 2025	£7.192 million	£243,601.16	£667,000	£6,281,399
Just Transition Fund	Moray Council	Just Transition Masterplan – Moray Council	Five interlinked projects to support Moray’s journey away from fossil fuels, including projects to support offshore renewables, creation of a local hydrogen economy, natural capital approach to offsetting, and redeveloping derelict land and premises.	2022 - 2024	£881 k (underspend)	£250,544.62	£388,438.68​
Just Transition Fund	Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, and Moray Councils	NESS Carbon Capture Feasibility Study	Study to determine if there is a viable project to retrofit carbon capture systems to the NESS energy facility.	2022 - 2023	£100 k (underspend)	£96,750
Just Transition Fund	The Food Hub (NES)	SeedPod	Seedpod aims to be the go to centre for innovation and growth in the net zero food & drink industry. The Just Transition Fund has contributed £3.1m towards the cost of building and fitting out the £27 million project.	2022 - 2024	£3.1 million	£500,000	£2,600,000
Just Transition Fund	Social Investment Scotland	Social Enterprise Just Transition Fund	Delivery of a blended finance approach(part loan/part grant) focused on supporting charities and social enterprises to transition to net zero.	2022 - 2024	£1 million (underspend)	£488,085	£528,000
Just Transition Fund	Energy Transition Zone Ltd	Supply Chain Pathway and Energy Transition Challenge Fund	Supporting companies to enter new energy markets, and delivering capital investment grants to help energy supply chain companies take advantage of low carbon sector opportunities.	2022 - 2026	£9.8 million	£1,299,598	£2,841,000	£2,839,913.28
Just Transition Fund	Energy Transition Zone Ltd	Energy Transition Skills Hub (formerly Advanced Manufacturing Skills Hub)	The Skills Hub will be a focal point of the Energy Transition Zone Skills Campus and will aim to deliver the skills and training needed to support net zero transition.	2022 - 2024	£4.5 million	£1,180,000	£470,000	£2,850,000
Just Transition Fund	VSA	Easter Anguston Farm	Feasibility study setting out plans for a centre of excellence focusing on 4 areas: STEM, Farm-to-Fork, woodland adventures and linking people to services to help their health and wellbeing.	2022 - 2023	£504,447	£504,446.86
Just Transition Fund	OPITO	Energy Skills Passport	Development and deployment of a digital offshore energy skills passport to support the transition of skills and jobs across the rapidly changing industry.	2022 - 2024	£3.7 million	£1,871,967.88	£1,831,641.69
Just Transition Fund	National Energy Skills Accelerator (NESA)	Pilot Energy Transition Skills	Assessing the net zero energy transition skills landscape from now until 2030, identifying gaps/ demand and designing and delivering pilot training to address these.	2022 - 2024	£1 million	£39,960	£960,040
Just Transition Fund	University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI Moray)	Moray Net Zero Bottlenecks	Collaborative study focused on the current and future skills requirements and labour supply chain bottlenecks in Moray as it transitions to Net Zero	2022 - 2024	£209,596 (underspend)	£41,596.47	£140,193.32
Just Transition Fund	Net Zero Technology Centre	Hydrogen Offshore Production (HOP2)	Project to demonstrate that offshore hydrogen production and storage is feasible through the repurposing of existing assets to produce green hydrogen.	2022 - 2026	£2.12 million	£126,000	£514,000	£680,000
Just Transition Fund	Ripcell	Sustainable Solvent Recovery/EV Battery Recycling	Pilot to test technology using pot ale (whisky waste product) to deploy a “green solvent” to be used in recycling batteries.	2022 - 2024	£626,734	£457,559	£169,715
Just Transition Fund	Shine Engineering	Tidal Rotor Generator	Pilot to develop tidal rotor generators to create a source of green energy in the region.	2022 - 2024	£167,200	£71,200	£96,000
Just Transition Fund	Seaweed Energy	Wave Energy Converter	Pilot to develop wave energy converters to create a source of green energy in the region.	2022 - 2024	£100,100	£70,000	£30,100
Just Transition Fund	North East Scotland Climate Action Network (NESCAN) Hub	Just Transition Communities Project	This pilot study aims to address the question of how communities can be involved in and help to drive the process of designing, creating and delivering a Just Transition through a range of participative approaches, including Climate Assemblies.	2022 - 2025	£662,096	£240,000	£172,096	£250,000
Just Transition Fund	Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce/Campaign for North East Rail (CNER)	Buchan Sustainable Transport Study	Study to examine possible travel interventions in Dyce, Ellon, Peterhead, and Fraserburgh to accelerate the region’s transition to net zero.	2022 - 2024	£250K	£0	£250,000
Just Transition Fund	Park Ecovillage Trust and Findhorn Innovation Research and Education	Findhorn Ecovillage	Four feasibility studies looking at shifting from conventional housing to net zero housing and transportation within the context of the ecovillage and beyond.	2022 - 2023	£226,775	£226,775
Just Transition Fund	Findhorn, Nairn, and Lossie Rivers Trust	Findhorn Watershed Riverwoods Pilot	Habitat restoration of the Findhorn watershed, beginning with an unbroken network of riparian woodland along its riverbanks, supporting the restoration of Wild Atlantic Salmon populations.	2022 - 2025	£969,972 (underspend)	£139,972.45	£434098	£316,838
Just Transition Fund	tsiMoray, Aberdeen Council of Voluntary Organisations, Aberdeenshire Voluntary Action, NESCAN Hub and Money4Moray	Just Transition Participatory Budgeting	£1 million of the Fund will be allocated to participatory budgeting every year over the lifetime of this parliament.	2022 - 2025	£4.21 million	£1,000,000	£1,000,000	£1,000,000
Just Transition Fund	Opportunity North East	North East Adventure Tourism	Project to transform the region into a world class destination for adventure tourism by facilitating the development of high quality, sustainable facilities and low carbon infrastructure.	2022 - 2024	£2.097 million (underspend)	£397,000	£1,293,674.13
Just Transition Fund	The Cabrach Trust	The Cabrach Distillery	Development of distillery, a Community Interest Company for the Cabrach region that will use its revenues for rural regeneration and a community led regeneration master plan.	2022 - 2023	£361,767	£361,767.25
Just Transition Fund	North East Scotland Climate Action Network (NESCAN) Hub	Capacity Support	Staff resource costs to support delivery of the Just Transition Communities Project.	2022- 2025	£167,387	£23,967.53	£48,892	£94,526.96

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