Dec 2024 SCCE asks

The Scottish Coalition on Community Energy (SCCE) welcomed Scottish Government's review of community benefits saying:

"more is needed to deliver a fair energy deal for Scottish communities."

"In a report launched today, 19 December 2024, the community coalition urged the Scottish Government to increase this ‘good practice benchmark’. For onshore wind, they suggest £7.3k per Megawatt per year, plus additional payments to bring the total to at least 2.5% of the developer’s revenue from the project."

Jun 2025 SCCE asks

SCCE's New standards for Community Benefit funds from clean power developments was updated to call for:

"We recommend that clean power developments contribute 5% of gross revenue to communities, through local community benefit funds plus contributions to a Scottish Community Wealth Fund. We recommend different percentage splits for onshore vs offshore (see p. 3). The local community benefit payments should be reinforced by a minimum floor level of £s per megawatt per year. For onshore wind the floor should be £7.5k/MW, which is the level that the current benchmark of £5,000/MW would be at if it had increased in line with inflation since it was set in 2010. Different floors should be set for other technologies, given differing levels of expected revenue."

Latest SCCE policy

See SCCE's latest policy

Consultation outcome

Read the outcome of the Scottish Government's Community benefits from net zero energy developments consultation which closed 11 Apr 2025.

See SCCE Sep 2025 manifesto asks

Read PCC's consultation response. Thank you to the Scottish Community Coalition on Energy for the wide consultation on their response.