renewable energy - who benefits? - nicholas gubbins

Renewable Energy – Who Benefits?

Scotland’s Community Energy Development Charity

http://www.communityenergyscotland.org.ukScottish Charity Number: SC039673

Nicholas Gubbins March 2011

Registered Scottish Charity

Help communities to benefit from RE

Restricted Fund management: services for Scottish Govt; HIE and BLF ~ £6m this year – grants to community groups

Advice and support to community / voluntary / non-profit sector

Social enterprise

Who we are / what we do

Scotland’s Targets – by 2020

80% electricity consumed from renewables

11% heat consumed ~ need 2.7GW installed

10% transport consumption from renewables

Scotland’s Renewable Resources

Wind Wave

Scotland’s Renewable Resources

Tidal Biomass

Source: Scottish Renewables March 2011

Installed Capacity

Focus on electricity

~ By 2011 31% electricity consumption expected to be met by renewables = 4GW installed capacity

~ a further 10GW installed capacity required

~ 6GW onshore wind consented or in planning

~ 10 GW offshore wind – early stage

~1600 MW wave and tidal – early stage

Significant expansion in onshore wind required

Community Benefit

Rough rule of thumb: £100k net annual profit per 1MW installed capacity onshore wind

4GW installed capacity = £400,000,000 net annual profit

‘Community Benefit’ : £700 - £2000 per MW

£2.8m - £8m pa

0.7% - 2% pa

Source: Elaine MacIntosh, SAC / University of Edinburgh 2008

Community benefit arrangements

Currently free for all – voluntary payments, no regulated system

Ministers well aware of scale of development required to meet targets + wish to see a significant increase in the scale of benefits accruing to communities from renewable energy

SG consultation on ‘securing the benefits’ just undertaken

Communities can need assistance in establishing structures and plans for investing community benefit income

Vision

Decentralised • Community Owned • Secure • Resilient

Re-investment in service provision

Additional events and

classes

Additional income

from additional

events

8500 additional visits pa

£10,000 pa saving on

fuel

900kW Enercon Turbine

Commissioned 2010

Income via trading company to Tiree Community Development Trust

3. Community Owned (non-profit distributing)

fuel poverty action

school projects

Local food

skills

energy efficiency measuresawareness

raising

sustainable transport

social enterprises

local business

greening local facilities

Transformational impact

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