Case Studies

Below are a selection of resources and case studies to give you useful information on CARES. Hover over an image for more information.

Guildtown Community Hall
Guildtown Community Association used CARES funding to install electricity batteries to work with the existing solar PV and ground source heat pump at Guildtown Community Hall.

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Guildtown Community Hall
BroomPower Community Hydro
BroomPower is a 100kW run-of-river hydro electric scheme in the North West Highlands, funded by CARES at feasibility and pre-planning stages.

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BroomPower Community Hydro
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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Islay Community Wind Turbine
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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Edinburgh Community Solar Co-operative
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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Garth Wind, North Yell
Harlaw Hydro
Lynn Molleson and Martin Petty discuss the Harlaw Hydro project; the share offer, the successes to date and the lessons learnt.

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Harlaw Hydro
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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Arrochar Community Hydro
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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Comrie Croft

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