Island communities could get cut-price electricity from locally owned wind farms as part of Labour’s plan for a new nationalised clean energy company.
But Torcuil Crichton, the party’s Western Isles candidate, has admitted the task of ditching fossil fuels in favour of renewables will “make building HS2 look like a Hornby train set”.
He revealed one of the key benefits of Labour’s promise to create GB Energy would be to enable people in remote locations to take part-ownership of wind farms and also receive cheaper tariffs from turbines close to their homes.
He said: “Scotland’s oil and gas production will continue for a generation while the country moves to renewables as a source of power but all that North Sea skill and expertise is going to have to be mirrored on the west coast.“As well as plans for onshore wind farms in the Western Isles, several large offshore wind arrays are proposed for the Atlantic seaboard.
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