Community Energy Scotland Cowal Peninsula Community Wind Pioneers
Funded Project: Description
This project will appraise and develop the best option for the communities of the Cowal Peninsula to develop their own community wind farm opportunities in order to address social need and tackle previous opportunity imbalance. Community ownership will create a significant sustainable income from their own natural resources, which will be used fairly and inclusively to tackle fuel poverty.
New opportunities for community ownership are known and this project will enable the organisation to progress them; Cruach Mhor, a 30MW windfarm, is likely to repower in the coming years, opening up the opportunity to negotiate a novel shared ownership repowering deal – and/or it may be that a new, wholly-owned/community-consortium arrangement would have greatest benefit. This stage of the project will map out and appraise the routes and wider feasibility of the different options.