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The Scottish Government’s Community and Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES) offers a range of financial support to local energy projects.
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Discover the different ways your community can benefit from the transition to clean energy. Use our search tool and interactive map to explore projects across the country offering community benefit packages, shared ownership examples and locally owned schemes.
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Funding

Community Energy Growth Fund

Part of the Scottish Government’s Community and Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES), the Community Energy Growth Fund helps communities take communi...

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Assumptions used

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Glossary of terms

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Impact of project level debt on community investment

The developer of the Project may use debt financing to fund the underlying Project. This would usually rank senior to any profits payable to equity, m...

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Impact of community funding costs

The Community would need to fund its investment and is likely to need to raise third party financing to fund the full Investment Price if it does not ...

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Investment profile

When a Community is offered a shared ownership investment stake, the amount that it is asked to invest (Investment Price) is usually based on one of t...

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