{"id":3761,"date":"2019-12-19T14:43:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T13:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simra-h2020.eu\/?page_id=3761"},"modified":"2020-01-13T14:56:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T13:56:52","slug":"community-energy-huntly-district-development-trust-scotland-uk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.simra-h2020.eu\/index.php\/simra-case-studies\/community-energy-huntly-district-development-trust-scotland-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Community energy: Huntly District Development Trust \u2013 Scotland, UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><small><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3774\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simra-h2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/scantland-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"608\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.simra-h2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/scantland-1.jpg 850w, http:\/\/www.simra-h2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/scantland-1-300x215.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.simra-h2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/scantland-1-768x549.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/>\u00a9Huntly Express and D. Boyd<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>CS team:\u00a0<\/strong> Bill Slee, the Rural Development Company \u00a0Richard Hewitt, the James Hutton Institute<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rural-development.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RDC <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The CS in a nutshell:<\/strong><br \/>\nHuntly and District Development Trust (HDDT) has recently developed a wind turbine on a trust-owned farm to the south west of the town. This turbine will provide the bulk of the income to secure the running costs of the trust. Rather than crowd sourcing the capital, this was obtained by a mixture of CARE loan and bank loans. The income will derive from sales of electricity to the grid and the feed in tariff which will be available for the next 20 years. Huntly was the target of a council-led town development project, but when the funding for this project ran out, a decision was made to form a community development trust to continue the momentum achieved by the council project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the area:<\/strong><br \/>\nHuntly is a town of about 4000 people, 62 kilometres north\u2010west of Aberdeen and is the most disadvantaged small town in inland Aberdeenshire.<\/p>\n<p><em><small><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3762\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simra-h2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mapa-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.simra-h2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mapa-5.png 850w, http:\/\/www.simra-h2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mapa-5-300x207.png 300w, http:\/\/www.simra-h2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mapa-5-768x530.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/>Location of Huntly in Aberdeenshire Scotland. \u00a9 Google Earth Pro &amp; Mapbox.com..<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9Huntly Express and D. Boyd CS team:\u00a0 Bill Slee, the Rural Development Company \u00a0Richard Hewitt, the James Hutton Institute RDC The CS in a nutshell: Huntly and District Development Trust (HDDT) has recently developed a wind turbine on a trust-owned farm to the south west of the town. This turbine will provide the bulk of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":783,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simra-h2020.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3761"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simra-h2020.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simra-h2020.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simra-h2020.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simra-h2020.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.simra-h2020.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3785,"href":"http:\/\/www.simra-h2020.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3761\/revisions\/3785"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simra-h2020.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simra-h2020.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}