OFGEM consultation on Non Traditional Business Models
OFGEM have just opened a new and important consultation on how they should respond as a regulator to the emergence of ‘Non-Traditional Business Models’ or NTBMs. The consultation will close …
Consultation on the Argyll and Bute Community Renewables Opportunity Plan
Argyll and Bute Council and its partners are currently looking at how they can better assist communities in securing socio-economic benefit from renewables and the development of local renewable projects. To …
New EU Intergroup for Islands as well as Seas, Rivers, and Coastal areas.
Kick off meeting for new EU Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal areas Intergroup At long last, there will be an Intergroup in the EU parliament that will look into Island …
Community power
Community Power is the way forward shows CES The 2014 Community Energy Scotland conference held in Edinburgh last November reiterated that point very strongly. Existing grid constraints unlikely to be …
Green Energy Mull smashes its initial target of £300 000 shares
It is almost a year to the day since the first share sale was launched for Mull’s Garmony hydro-scheme, and since then over 200 people have become investors. The Garmony …
SMILEGOV update December 2014
In Project SMILEGOV, the Scottish Islands Federation (SIF) leads the capacity building involvement of 10 island communities in the project, participating alongside other cluster leaders and islands throughout European Atlantic, …
Good luck to Gigha
Good luck to Gigha in balancing the books Great editorial in The Herald, putting recent stories about the community-owned island of Gigha in context. Read also about Gigha’s innovative battery …
Community Food Growing
Community food growing One of the ambitions of the forthcoming Community Empowerment Bill is to increase the number of communities who take on land with a view to growing food. …
Islands Going Green
Gigha Battery Project Gigha Green Power on the community-owned Isle of Gigha have recently commissioned an Enercon E33 turbine to complement their existing three Vestas V27 wind farm. However, due …