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Energy efficiency projects receive community benefit funding

17 February 2025

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Council encouraged to lobby for much improved community benefit from renewable energy projects

6 February 2025

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Student seeks views on Viking and community benefit

15 January 2025

Wind turbines on a hill overlooking a rural landscape with scattered houses and green fields under a cloudy sky.

Should energy community benefit payments be increased?

24 December 2024

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Viking community fund business plan agreed as £2.2m a year scheme prepares to open

15 May 2024

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Arrangements for main Viking community benefit fund proposed

6 April 2024

A group of wind turbines.

Fair energy – a bubble about to burst or an opportunity to take ownership?

20 March 2024

Sn letters - letter at Shetlandnews.

On ownership, apathy and autonomy

15 January 2024

A group of wind turbines.

On community benefits

Managing director of local energy consultancy Voar, Daniel Gear, shares his thoughts on navigating Shetland’s resource ownership in the wind and hydrogen age

12 December 2023

Community benefit fund one step closer to financing legacy projects

7 November 2023

Sn letters - letter at Shetlandnews.

A bribe to the community

5 October 2023

A distant view of numerous wind turbines on a barren landscape under an overcast sky.

SIC wants more community benefit in the form of cheaper energy prices

5 September 2023

Two men stand beside parked bicycles on a paved path near a body of water and buildings. One man shields his eyes from the sun while the other wears a helmet and leans on his bike.

Green minister keen to see more community benefit from renewable energy projects

Work to make homes greener and more energy efficient should have been started decades ago, Patrick Harvie says during visit to the isles

31 August 2023

A shoreline with people working on a small boat and near red buoys in the water; a hilly landscape with scattered small structures is in the background.

Consultation open on new SSEN community fund

4 July 2023

A boat, equipped with equipment and personnel in red jackets, is stationed in a body of water near a construction site with workers, machinery, and a hillside.

SSEN to consult on scheme which could see community benefit money come from transmission link

26 June 2023

An aerial view of a single wind turbine situated in a vast, barren landscape with cloudy skies overhead. Construction equipment is visible at the base of the turbine.

More time to respond to Viking community benefit survey

10 May 2023

Lib Dems call for enhanced community benefit payments from onshore wind farms

The party also wants to see these payments become mandatory

13 March 2023

Council sets out community benefit expectations as offshore wind developers visit the isles

8 December 2022

Consultation to get under way into use of Viking community benefit funds

17 January 2022

Petitioners want councillors to be in charge of community benefit negotiations

23 November 2021

An impression of how part of the Viking Energy windfarm could look.

Viking Energy community benefit fund agreement an ‘important step forward’

Applications for the £400,000-a-year advanced grant scheme will open in early 2021

23 November 2020

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