Question reference: S6W-22529
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 30 October 2023
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Current status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 9 November 2023
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding was allocated to groups through the Community and Renewable Energy Scheme in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021 and (d) 2022, also broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The Community and Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES) supports communities across Scotland to participate in, and benefit from, the energy transition to net zero emissions. Since its inception, CARES has offered funding of over £61 million to over 800 projects and helped support the installation of 58.6 MW of renewable energy.
CARES funding is allocated across financial years. The breakdown of funding offered to groups for financial years 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23 by local authority area is set out in the following table.
CARES is a demand-led scheme, and so relies on organisations submitting successful applications for funding. This means that there is often a difference between the CARES budget and the funding offered to projects.
The figures provided below relate to the date when funding was offered, and so do not necessarily correlate to when the funding was drawn down or spent by communities.
CARES Funding offered by financial year | |||||
Local Authority | FY18-19 | FY19-20 | FY20-21 | FY21-22 | FY22-23 |
Aberdeen City | £0 | £0 | £90,980 | £188,634 | £306,971 |
Aberdeenshire | £74,043 | £165,127 | £66,835 | £100,241 | £172,096 |
Angus | £0 | £0 | £16,365 | £37,825 | £0 |
Argyll and Bute | £191,453 | £23,475 | £220,040 | £243,253 | £49,981 |
Clackmannanshire | £0 | £0 | £0 | £27,665 | £0 |
Dumfries and Galloway | £107,349 | £22,000 | £183,032 | £167,735 | £22,383 |
Dundee City | £54,600 | £0 | £132,990 | £115,355 | £184,122 |
East Ayrshire | £26,799 | £960 | £69,007 | £7,500 | £80,000 |
East Dunbartonshire | £0 | £0 | £4,980 | £0 | £158,400 |
East Lothian | £18,100 | £5,997 | £12,000 | £59,512 | £5,966 |
East Renfrewshire | £63,480 | £0 | £4,022 | £50,901 | £0 |
Edinburgh City | £108,000 | £36,525 | £13,000 | £255,849 | £25,840 |
Falkirk | £375 | £25,000 | £0 | £12,850 | £77,265 |
Fife | £15,217 | £70,540 | £3,470 | £41,197 | £0 |
Glasgow City | £186,629 | £134,148 | £110,307 | £247,267 | £6,713 |
Highland | £386,007 | £732,229 | £3,099,069 | £286,125 | £478,001 |
Inverclyde | £0 | £0 | £4,920 | £22,140 | £93,159 |
Midlothian | £0 | £0 | £12,000 | £0 | £0 |
Moray | £29,771 | £43,878 | £27,800 | £297,258 | £270,104 |
North Ayrshire | £0 | £11,902 | £72,985 | £112,812 | £267,757 |
North Lanarkshire | £0 | £0 | £59,887 | £141,814 | £0 |
Orkney | £9,300 | £0 | £0 | £57,810 | £23,965 |
Pert and Kinross | £84,221 | £65,606 | £36,600 | £40,996 | £145,338 |
Renfrewshire | £185 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £20,625 |
Scottish Borders | £84,960 | £10,000 | £0 | £218,557 | £80,000 |
Shetland Islands | £15,485 | £72,600 | £106,835 | £70,650 | £100,000 |
South Ayrshire | £0 | £11,200 | £24,377 | £10,905 | £0 |
South Lanarkshire | £295 | £0 | £368,396 | £651,673 | £59,037 |
Stirling | £182,423 | £197,050 | £25,150 | £273,973 | £63,273 |
West Dumbartonshire | £0 | £15,000 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
West Lothian | £162,000 | £118,888 | £0 | £24,284 | £71,641 |
Western Isles | £209,556 | £90,993 | £204,013 | £219,572 | £0 |
TOTAL | £2,010,247 | £1,853,117 | £4,969,059 | £3,984,353 | £2,762,637 |