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What the Onshore Wind Sector Deal means for Scottish communities
This guide was written by Local Energy Scotland and published in September 2025.
Understanding shared ownership, community benefits and net zero support
In the Sector Deal developers have committed to engage with local communities about onshore wind projects at the earliest opportunity possible. This m...
What does the Onshore Wind Sector Deal mean for communities?
Community benefits are voluntary packages of benefits (often in the form of funds but may also include other benefits) that renewable energy busines...
Good Practice Principles
The community commitments within the Sector Deal support the Scottish Government’s Good Practice Principles for community benefits and shared owners...
CARES Development Fund
You can apply for the CARES Development Fund by visiting the CARES project portal log in page. Select ‘Begin a new project’ and complete the expr...
5. Scottish Government’s electricity framework agreement 2024 to 2029
Scottish Government recently signed-off an electricity framework agreement, which sets out a framework for the supply of electricity to public sector ...
4.1. Relevant code modifications
While local supply is currently challenging and the licence exemptions regime is complex, some code modifications are underway which may enable new mo...
Power Purchase Agreements and non-commodity relief
This briefing note was produced by Regen. It was written by Prina Sumaria and Robbie Evans from the just transition and communities team, and approved...
4. Local supply for community generators
While instinctively many community energy generators are interested in selling their electricity to local households, this is challenging under curren...