Graph of the Week - Community Benefit from renewables

If your community is host to a privately owned renewable energy site like a wind farm, you may receive a community benefit package worth around £5,000 per MW per year.

However, a study conducted in 2021 found that Scottish communities that own their own renewable energy generators earn on average 34 times as much revenue with some sites in the Western Isles earning almost £300,000 per MW per year.

You can read the study here.