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 …
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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 …
Empowering Scottish Islands
Island Minister appointed The Scottish Islands Federation welcomes the restoration of the island minister post for which it has long been campaigning. Derek MacKay who has been appointed to the …
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 …
Our Islands Our Future
On 17 June 2013, Leaders of the three island Councils – Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, Orkney Islands Council and Shetland Islands Council – launched Our Islands Our Future, setting out …