Case Studies

Islay Community Wind Turbine

Islay Energy Trust put a wind turbine on Islay in 2015, to generate energy and community benefit funds for the local area.

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Edinburgh Community Solar Co-operative

Edinburgh Community Solar Co-operative owns 1.38MW of solar panels on 24 schools and leisure centres all over Edinburgh.

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Garth Wind, North Yell

Watch to find out about the Garth Wind project, a five turbine community wind farm in Yell. This case study video was produced by North Yell Development Council for the CARES Conference in April 2018.

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Arrochar Community Hydro

The Arrochar Community Hydro Scheme is based in Arrochar, on Luss Estates’ land in Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. The scheme was funded through a community share offer, which was open to local residents and the wider renewable energy community and raised the build cost of £660K in just two weeks. Funding from Local Energy Scotland was awarded in the pre-planning stages.

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Comrie Croft

Comrie Croft Ltd is an award-winning community and employee owned ‘community of eco-enterprises’ on the outskirts of Comrie, Perthshire. A 50kW PV installation provides energy to the buildings and electric vehicle charging points. Three 15kW battery storage units have been installed to store any excess electricity generated by the solar PV.

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Garmony Hydro

In 2010 Mull and Iona Community Trust (MICT) secured grant funding from the Scottish Government’s Community and Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES) for a feasibility study to investigate generating power from a hydro – electric scheme.

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