Direct funding for green energy generation for small businesses and households

Rather than providing financial assistance to large corporate entities installing large scale power generation schemes, provide full funding to individual households and businesses to install their own small scale energy generation schemes, such as solar panels and battery storeage facilities.

Why the contribution is important

Providing households and businesses with their own means of generating green energy will free them from dependance on energy supplied to them at world market prices, with all the uncertainties that brings. Having an extensive and diverse range of privately owned small scale energy generation at local level will be robust and sustainable. Small scale energy generation would support local jobs and thus investment in local communities. In contrast funding large scale power schemes just generates power to be sold back to us at world market rates, over which we have no control, and from which large corporate entites make vast profits.

by Herdwick on August 26, 2022 at 01:52AM

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  • Posted by Tony August 26, 2022 at 09:20

    One of the most frustrating parts of the Scottish Government's approach is that local schemes are often affected by standards defined in Hollyrood.

    As a brief example. A local organisation was looking at installing Solar power systems. The grants available only support solar on roofs.
    In this area there are lots of gardens available which would allow ground based solar which would be cheaper to install, be orientated better and easier to maintain.
    But this local production does not meet the standards set out by Holyrood even though it is a better solution.

    It is frustrating that local solutions are being identified but there is an attitude of if it doesn't fit in a box it can not be done.

  • Posted by LPhillips September 06, 2022 at 12:25

    Agree that to accompany funding for big corporation energy projects, grants for households e.g. for solar panels, would accelerate net zero.
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