Onshore renewable energy - refreshing the good practice principles for community benefits: working paper
It’s vital that Scotland’s communities benefit from our renewable energy resources. This paper has new proposals to strengthen our guidance for community benefits from onshore renewables projects, including on fund levels, technologies, governance, distribution, and support for communities.
Footnotes
1 Onshore wind, solar, hydropower generation, pumped hydro storage (PHS), battery energy storage systems (BESS), hydrogen, carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS), other negative emission technologies (NETs), and transmission infrastructure.
2 Commercial Solar Photovoltaic (PV) developments
3 For example, UK Government figures suggest that 16,000 MW of onshore wind is enough to power the equivalent of around 10 million homes. Onshore wind strategy - GOV.UK
4 The information included in the Register is volunteered by renewable energy developers, project owners and fund administrators, and is only as accurate and up-to-date as the information provided.
5 Load factor, prices, and costs data across technologies – available at Electricity generation costs 2025 - GOV.UK