News and Events

Local Energy Scotland: COVID-19 status update

Our COVID-19 status update at Wednesday 18 March 2020.

Scottish communities reap £20m in benefits from renewable energy projects

For the first time ever, the Scottish Government’s Register of Community Benefits has shown that £20m worth of community benefits have been recorded by Scottish communities and renewable energy businesses in a 12 month period.

New community benefits toolkit available

A new, free toolkit to help communities make the most of community benefits is now available on the Local Energy Scotland website.

Free webinar: Community Benefits Toolkit

Our free webinar, delivered in partnership with Foundation Scotland, will give an overview of how to use the new Community Benefits Toolkit and will present case studies and examples from across Scotland.

CARES Funding round now open

The next funding round of the Scottish Government’s Community and Renewables Energy Scheme (CARES), is now open for applications until Friday 31 January 2020.

New CARES mentoring programme open for applications

The pilot phase of the new CARES mentoring programme is now open for applications.

Improving Consumer Outcomes Fund: Energy - now open

A new funding programme aimed at improving energy consumer outcomes in Scotland has been launched today (Monday 4 November).

Scottish Government Local Energy Policy Statement: consultation events

As part of the Scottish Government's Local Energy Policy Statement consultation process, a series of workshops are being held to gather the views of a wide variety of stakeholders.