FOI/202500462673 · FOI · unclear
Local Authority ownership of energy in Scotland: FOI release
Information requested
“The Energy Savings Trust have recently published the latest edition of the Community and Locally Owned Energy in Scotland report covering the figures for 2024: https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/report/community-and-locally-owned-energy-in-scotland-2024-report/.
Appendix B shows that Local Authority ownership is 198MW and 22,050 installations. Could you please provide a breakdown of these figures by each local authority.”
Response
I have enclosed the requested information at Annex A, which breaks down the total number of installations (22,050) and total generation capacity (198MW) for 2024, in the ‘Community and Locally Owned Energy in Scotland: 2024 report’, by local authority.
Annex A
The table below breaks down the total number of installations and total generation capacity in Scotland by local authority:
Local Authority Capacity_MW Number_of_installations Aberdeen City 2 200 Aberdeenshire 19 5040 Angus 3 210 Argyll & Bute 5 50 City of Edinburgh 6 570 Clackmannanshire 2 220 Dumfries & Galloway 3 40 Dundee City 2 60 East Ayrshire 2 290 East Dunbartonshire 4 190 East Lothian 2 440 East Renfrewshire <1 290 Falkirk 3 420 Fife 9 300 Glasgow City 3 50 Highland 38 1950 Inverclyde 1 40 Midlothian 1 340 Moray 5 530 Na h-Eileanan Siar 2 50 North Ayrshire 8 560 North Lanarkshire 12 2130 Orkney Islands 4 240 Perth & Kinross 12 850 Renfrewshire 4 210 Scottish Borders 1 <10 Shetland Islands 1 130 South Ayrshire <1 120 South Lanarkshire 19 1840 Stirling 13 4280 West Dunbartonshire 7 80 West Lothian 4 330 Total 198 22050
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