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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.

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Good Practice Principles 

The community commitments within the Sector Deal support the Scottish Government’s Good Practice Principles for community benefits and shared owners...

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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...

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Safeguarding the sustainability of Scotland’s off-grid communities

Other parties involved Energy Mutual provided consistent single-point-of-contact project management support to Knoydart Renewables Ltd, Isle of Muck P...

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Hagshaw Energy Cluster

Location: Lanarkshire, East Ayrshire

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The 9CC Group

Project: The 9CC Group – the East Ayrshire Rural Coalfields Strategic Community Benefit project

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Crossdykes wind farm

Technology: onshore wind

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Binn Eco Park Wind Farm

Technology: community shared ownership of onshore wind at Binn Eco Park

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Appendix 2: Shared ownership models

Part of our shared ownership module. This section looks at some examples of how some shared ownership models may work in practice.

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Appendix 1: Three Stage Process for Shared Ownership

Part of our shared ownership module. This section looks at the three stage process of undertaking shared ownership projects.

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Investment risks

The following list of risk factors is not exhaustive and there may be other risks which relate to an investment in a renewable development. It is esse...

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Shared ownership case studies

Part of our shared ownership module. This section looks at two case studies: Neilston Community Wind Farm and Allt Dearg Wind Farmers LLP.

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