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Energy

Lottery success for community renewable energy projects

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Details: Friday, 19 March 2010 10:14 Tamsin Morris Hits: 582

Six projects in Orkney, Shetland and Aberdeenshire have received grants from the Big Lottery Fund Growing Community Assets programme, to help develop renewable energy projects.

The island of Foula, twenty miles to the west of Shetland, will receive funding to install three small wind turbines along with battery storage and back-up generators. The work will help to provide reliable power supplies for the twenty eight islanders and will complement their recently commissioned hydro scheme.

On Orkney, the communities of Hoy, Shapinsay and Stronsay will start work on three wind turbine projects whilst in Aberdeenshire the Udny Community Trust will also build a turbine (which, if I lean right back in my chair here, I might just be able to see, so I'll keep you posted!).

You can read more about each of the proects in the press release produced by Big.

Elsewhere, the Camuscross and Duisdale Initiative have secured a grant from Awards for All and support from Highlands and Islands Enterprise Community Land Unit to enable them to purchase the Allt Duisdale reservoir. You can read more about their energy-generating plans on their website.