Renewable Energy - Who Benefits? - Nicholas Gubbins
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Renewable Energy – Who Benefits? Scotland’s Community Energy Development Charity http://www.communityenergyscotland.o rg.uk Scottish Charity Number: SC039673 Nicholas Gubbins March 2011
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Nicholas Gubbins, Chief Executive of Community Energy Scotland, talks about who benefits from renewable energy.The Whose Economy? seminars, organised by Oxfam Scotland and the University of the West of Scotland, brought together experts to look at recent changes in the Scottish economy and their impact on Scotland's most vulnerable communities.Held over winter and spring 2010-11 in Edinburgh, Inverness, Glasgow and Stirling, the series posed the question of what economy is being created in Scotland and, specifically, for whom?To find out more and view other Whose Economy? papers, presentations and videos visit:http://www.oxfamblogs.org/ukpovertypost/whose-economy-seminar-series-winter-2010-spring-2011/
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Renewable Energy – Who Benefits?
Scotland’s Community Energy Development Charity
http://www.communityenergyscotland.org.ukScottish Charity Number: SC039673
Nicholas Gubbins March 2011
Registered Scottish Charity
Help communities to benefit from RE
Restricted Fund management: services for Scottish Govt; HIE and BLF ~ £6m this year – grants to community groups
Advice and support to community / voluntary / non-profit sector
Social enterprise
Who we are / what we do
Scotland’s Targets – by 2020
80% electricity consumed from renewables
11% heat consumed ~ need 2.7GW installed
10% transport consumption from renewables
Scotland’s Renewable Resources
Wind Wave
Scotland’s Renewable Resources
Tidal Biomass
Source: Scottish Renewables March 2011
Installed Capacity
Focus on electricity
~ By 2011 31% electricity consumption expected to be met by renewables = 4GW installed capacity
~ a further 10GW installed capacity required
~ 6GW onshore wind consented or in planning
~ 10 GW offshore wind – early stage
~1600 MW wave and tidal – early stage
Significant expansion in onshore wind required
Community Benefit
Rough rule of thumb: £100k net annual profit per 1MW installed capacity onshore wind
4GW installed capacity = £400,000,000 net annual profit
‘Community Benefit’ : £700 - £2000 per MW
£2.8m - £8m pa
0.7% - 2% pa
Source: Elaine MacIntosh, SAC / University of Edinburgh 2008
Community benefit arrangements
Currently free for all – voluntary payments, no regulated system
Ministers well aware of scale of development required to meet targets + wish to see a significant increase in the scale of benefits accruing to communities from renewable energy
SG consultation on ‘securing the benefits’ just undertaken
Communities can need assistance in establishing structures and plans for investing community benefit income
Vision
Decentralised • Community Owned • Secure • Resilient
Re-investment in service provision
Additional events and
classes
Additional income
from additional
events
8500 additional visits pa
£10,000 pa saving on
fuel
900kW Enercon Turbine
Commissioned 2010
Income via trading company to Tiree Community Development Trust
3. Community Owned (non-profit distributing)
fuel poverty action
school projects
Local food
skills
energy efficiency measuresawareness
raising
sustainable transport
social enterprises
local business
greening local facilities
Transformational impact
To view all the papers in the Whose Economy series click here
To view all the videos and presentations
from the seminars click here
