Scottish Government Consultation on Community Benefits from Net Zero Energy Developments.
This consultation is part of a review of the Good Practice Principles for community benefits from onshore and offshore net zero energy developments, which seeks to ensure that Scottish Government guidance helps communities and developers get the best from community benefits.
Communities are at the heart of Scottish Government green energy transition, and they want to realise the opportunities for communities to share in the significant economic and social benefits created through developing Scotland’s renewable energy resources – supporting a just transition to net zero. This means supporting jobs, supply chain businesses and wider growth, building on developers’ commitments to invest an average of £1.5 billion in Scotland per project across the 20 ScotWind projects. It also means increasing access to cleaner, more sustainable energy, and delivering meaningful and long lasting benefits for people in communities. Embracing this opportunity will contribute towards achieving their mission to tackle poverty and support community wealth building. Scottish Government ambition for the future of community benefits needs to be commensurate with the scale of opportunity from Scotland’s net zero energy transition.
The consultation will be open until 11 April 2025
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