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

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Wind turbines on a hill overlooking a rural landscape with scattered houses and green fields under a cloudy sky.
  • 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
In this ViewPoint contribution, former parliamentary candidate, former councillor and trustee of Shetland Charitable Trust, journalist and book author Dr Jonathan Wills, offers a lesson in recent local history and in dealing with large energy corporations
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A group of wind turbines.
Managing director of local energy consultancy Voar, Daniel Gear, shares his thoughts on navigating Shetland’s resource ownership in the wind and hydrogen age
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