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A stormy sky with wind turbines in the background.

‘As a community, we have a right battle ahead’

This is an updated version of a feature originally prepared to set the scene for the national Power Shift project, a partnership of ten local news outlets investigating the green power boom. With 2025 coming to an end, it is worth once more to get a handle on the multitude of projects that are currently proposed for Shetland.  
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Wind turbines on a hill overlooking a rural landscape with scattered houses and green fields under a cloudy sky.

Achieving community benefit is hard work and requires communities to overcome differences over divisive energy projects

  • The Shetland Community Benefit Fund is the largest of its kind in the UK
  • Those behind the fund share the lessons learned from what was a 15-year long process
  • SSE says it has a long standing commitment toward providing community benefit
  • This feature is part of the Powershift project, a collaborative journalism initiative that investigates how Scotland’s green energy transition communities and power dynamics across the country
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