EIR/202500465856 · FOI/EIR · unclear
Scottish Government Just Transition Fund payments: EIR release
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Please could you tell me, broken down by each payment, each business and each year, how much has been paid out by the Scottish Government's Just Transition Fund since it was first announced in 2022.
Response
Please find below a detailed breakdown of the annual payments made to projects financed by the Just Transition Fund. It is important to note that all funds disbursed to date through the Just Transition Fund encompass academic institutions, third sector entities (including charities, social enterprises, and not-for profit organizations), as well as local authorities.
Fund Recipient / Organisation Project Description Year Total Award 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 Just Transition Fund Robert Gordon University Digital Innovation Lab Digital Innovation Lab initially supporting the construction sector to decarbonise before addressing challenges across a range of sectors. 2022 - 2024 £1.34 million £313,982.04 £1,026,495.42 Just Transition Fund The James Hutton Institute HydroGlen Green hydrogen farming pilot to acquire new knowledge to switch from increasingly high levels of fuel poverty to self reliant, net-zero carbon energy producers in rural communities. 2022 - 2026 £6.218 million £262,270.09 £1,248,412.94 £1,987,031 Just Transition Fund The James Hutton Institute Just Transition Hub Net zero innovation hub with a land-use and agriculture focus, located within the grounds of the James Hutton Institute (Hutton) campus in Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen. 2022 - 2025 £7.192 million £243,601.16 £667,000 £6,281,399 Just Transition Fund Moray Council Just Transition Masterplan – Moray Council Five interlinked projects to support Moray’s journey away from fossil fuels, including projects to support offshore renewables, creation of a local hydrogen economy, natural capital approach to offsetting, and redeveloping derelict land and premises. 2022 - 2024 £881 k (underspend) £250,544.62 £388,438.68 Just Transition Fund Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, and Moray Councils NESS Carbon Capture Feasibility Study Study to determine if there is a viable project to retrofit carbon capture systems to the NESS energy facility. 2022 - 2023 £100 k (underspend) £96,750 Just Transition Fund The Food Hub (NES) SeedPod Seedpod aims to be the go to centre for innovation and growth in the net zero food & drink industry. The Just Transition Fund has contributed £3.1m towards the cost of building and fitting out the £27 million project. 2022 - 2024 £3.1 million £500,000 £2,600,000 Just Transition Fund Social Investment Scotland Social Enterprise Just Transition Fund Delivery of a blended finance approach(part loan/part grant) focused on supporting charities and social enterprises to transition to net zero. 2022 - 2024 £1 million (underspend) £488,085 £528,000 Just Transition Fund Energy Transition Zone Ltd Supply Chain Pathway and Energy Transition Challenge Fund Supporting companies to enter new energy markets, and delivering capital investment grants to help energy supply chain companies take advantage of low carbon sector opportunities. 2022 - 2026 £9.8 million £1,299,598 £2,841,000 £2,839,913.28 Just Transition Fund Energy Transition Zone Ltd Energy Transition Skills Hub (formerly Advanced Manufacturing Skills Hub) The Skills Hub will be a focal point of the Energy Transition Zone Skills Campus and will aim to deliver the skills and training needed to support net zero transition. 2022 - 2024 £4.5 million £1,180,000 £470,000 £2,850,000 Just Transition Fund VSA Easter Anguston Farm Feasibility study setting out plans for a centre of excellence focusing on 4 areas: STEM, Farm-to-Fork, woodland adventures and linking people to services to help their health and wellbeing. 2022 - 2023 £504,447 £504,446.86 Just Transition Fund OPITO Energy Skills Passport Development and deployment of a digital offshore energy skills passport to support the transition of skills and jobs across the rapidly changing industry. 2022 - 2024 £3.7 million £1,871,967.88 £1,831,641.69 Just Transition Fund National Energy Skills Accelerator (NESA) Pilot Energy Transition Skills Assessing the net zero energy transition skills landscape from now until 2030, identifying gaps/ demand and designing and delivering pilot training to address these. 2022 - 2024 £1 million £39,960 £960,040 Just Transition Fund University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI Moray) Moray Net Zero Bottlenecks Collaborative study focused on the current and future skills requirements and labour supply chain bottlenecks in Moray as it transitions to Net Zero 2022 - 2024 £209,596 (underspend) £41,596.47 £140,193.32 Just Transition Fund Net Zero Technology Centre Hydrogen Offshore Production (HOP2) Project to demonstrate that offshore hydrogen production and storage is feasible through the repurposing of existing assets to produce green hydrogen. 2022 - 2026 £2.12 million £126,000 £514,000 £680,000 Just Transition Fund Ripcell Sustainable Solvent Recovery/EV Battery Recycling Pilot to test technology using pot ale (whisky waste product) to deploy a “green solvent” to be used in recycling batteries. 2022 - 2024 £626,734 £457,559 £169,715 Just Transition Fund Shine Engineering Tidal Rotor Generator Pilot to develop tidal rotor generators to create a source of green energy in the region. 2022 - 2024 £167,200 £71,200 £96,000 Just Transition Fund Seaweed Energy Wave Energy Converter Pilot to develop wave energy converters to create a source of green energy in the region. 2022 - 2024 £100,100 £70,000 £30,100 Just Transition Fund North East Scotland Climate Action Network (NESCAN) Hub Just Transition Communities Project This pilot study aims to address the question of how communities can be involved in and help to drive the process of designing, creating and delivering a Just Transition through a range of participative approaches, including Climate Assemblies. 2022 - 2025 £662,096 £240,000 £172,096 £250,000 Just Transition Fund Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce/Campaign for North East Rail (CNER) Buchan Sustainable Transport Study Study to examine possible travel interventions in Dyce, Ellon, Peterhead, and Fraserburgh to accelerate the region’s transition to net zero. 2022 - 2024 £250K £0 £250,000 Just Transition Fund Park Ecovillage Trust and Findhorn Innovation Research and Education Findhorn Ecovillage Four feasibility studies looking at shifting from conventional housing to net zero housing and transportation within the context of the ecovillage and beyond. 2022 - 2023 £226,775 £226,775 Just Transition Fund Findhorn, Nairn, and Lossie Rivers Trust Findhorn Watershed Riverwoods Pilot Habitat restoration of the Findhorn watershed, beginning with an unbroken network of riparian woodland along its riverbanks, supporting the restoration of Wild Atlantic Salmon populations. 2022 - 2025 £969,972 (underspend) £139,972.45 £434098 £316,838 Just Transition Fund tsiMoray, Aberdeen Council of Voluntary Organisations, Aberdeenshire Voluntary Action, NESCAN Hub and Money4Moray Just Transition Participatory Budgeting £1 million of the Fund will be allocated to participatory budgeting every year over the lifetime of this parliament. 2022 - 2025 £4.21 million £1,000,000 £1,000,000 £1,000,000 Just Transition Fund Opportunity North East North East Adventure Tourism Project to transform the region into a world class destination for adventure tourism by facilitating the development of high quality, sustainable facilities and low carbon infrastructure. 2022 - 2024 £2.097 million (underspend) £397,000 £1,293,674.13 Just Transition Fund The Cabrach Trust The Cabrach Distillery Development of distillery, a Community Interest Company for the Cabrach region that will use its revenues for rural regeneration and a community led regeneration master plan. 2022 - 2023 £361,767 £361,767.25 Just Transition Fund North East Scotland Climate Action Network (NESCAN) Hub Capacity Support Staff resource costs to support delivery of the Just Transition Communities Project. 2022- 2025 £167,387 £23,967.53 £48,892 £94,526.96
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