“It’s brilliant to see the Community Energy Catalyst in action for the first time, helping a landmark community project in Scotland get off the ground. Community energy schemes play an integral role in empowering local people in the energy transition, but at the moment only 0.5% of the UK’s electricity is generated from such projects. Through CEC we hope to help significantly increase that figure, enabling more community projects – just like Kilbirnie wind turbine – to come to life in communities across the UK.”

“At Better Society Capital we are on a mission to ensure that the transition to net zero by 2050 is an equitable one – one which involves all of society. The Kilbirnie investment demonstrates the power of community energy projects in helping drive a just transition in the UK, increasing the supply of clean energy whilst at the same time catalysing local economic growth and prosperity. We look forward to the turbine becoming operational and seeing the community’s plans for the reinvestment of profits come to fruition, with further recreational facilities for local people.”