Tag Archives: wind

Community ownership of renewables

A superb article on community ownership of renewables and the wider land justice perspective –

“Community energy generates 100x more wealth than corporate counterparts. Energy infrastructure, like political power needs to be radically decentralised.”

https://substack.com/home/post/p-171369017

Scotland is in the midst of a renewable energy revolution. It’s a revolution that could (and should) produce clean energy, thousands of good jobs, a reliable source of income for rural communities, and conquer fuel poverty. But it does none of these things. It is creating uproar and outrage by communities swamped by wind-farm proposals and the accompanying infrastructure, and shocked by the industrialisation of the Highlands and Islands, with little benefit to see for it.