Community and locally owned energy operational capacity and number of installations by local authority: FOI release
- Published
- 11 May 2026
- Directorate
- Energy and Climate Change Directorate
- Topic
- Energy, Public sector
- FOI reference
- FOI/202600512512
- Date received
- 25 March 2026
- Date responded
- 17 April 2026
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
The Energy Savings Trust have recently published the latest edition of the Community and Locally Owned Energy in Scotland report covering the figures for 2025:
https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/report/community-and-locally-owned-energy-in-scotland-2025/
Table 2 in Appendix B shows that Local Authority ownership is 215MW across 24,440 installations.
Could you please provide a breakdown of these figures by each local authority.
Response
I have enclosed the requested information at Annex A, which breaks down the total number of installations (24,440) and total operational capacity (215 MW) in the ‘Community and Locally Owned Energy in Scotland: 2025 report’, by local authority at the time of your request.
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