Report highlights the imbalance of 
who benefits from the green energy boom

A new report on the social value of the renewable energy boom in the Scottish Highlands and Islands has confirmed what most people living in the area had already suspected: there is a wide disparity in how host communities benefit from such projects.
The report, written by Tom Wills and Erin Rizzato of Lerwick-based Equitable Energy Research, and commissioned by social change campaigners Platform London, makes the point that community and local authority-led renewable projects “consistently return substantially more value. . .

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