Community Powerdown

Community Energy Scotland (CES), Development Trust Association Scotland (DTAS) and 25 community groups came together to form the Community Powerdown consortium. The consortium was successful in a bid to secure £1.5 million from the Scottish Government’s Climate Challenge Fund for the first phase of a coordinated effort to achieve carbon reduction projects and behaviour change within the participating communities.

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This first phase concentrates on establishing a staff resource within 25 of the communities and one CES co-ordinator to advise, facilitate networking and liaison between all groups and assist project progression within each of the communities participating.

Each community has identified a range of projects that it wishes to see advanced under the Community Powerdown initiative including:

  • energy auditing of local housing stock
  • development of local food markets and reducing local transport emissions
  • waste management
  • local solutions for domestic heat and power
  • community heat and power for community halls
  • local community energy generation

The projects will be investigated and progressed by the local Powerdown Project Officers within each community during 2009-2011.

It is estimated that the Community Powerdown project will bring about a reduction of 200,000kWh of fossil fuel consumption.

Participating Communities

  • Alness Transition Town Group
  • Ardoch Development Trust
  • Catrine Community Trust
  • Eday Partnership
  • Energy Action Westray
  • Fair Isle Electricity Company
  • Urras Oighreachd Ghabhsain
  • Isle of Gigha Heritage Trust
  • Isle of Jura Development Trust
  • Kirknewton Community Company
  • Knoydart Foundation
  • Lauderdale Development Trust
  • Latheron, Lybster, Clyth Development Company
  • Mull & Iona Community Trust
  • Neilston Development Trust
  • Northmavine Community Development Company
  • Rousay, Egilsay & Wyre Development Trust
  • Shapinsay Development Trust
  • South Kintyre Development Trust
  • Stronsay Development Trust
  • The Langholm Initiative
  • Tiree Rural development Trust
  • Ullapool Development Trust
  • Unst Partnership
  • Walkerburn Community Development Trust

 

 

 

 

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