The Scottish Government has announced £43 million in grants to 13 low carbon infrastructure projects via the Low Carbon Infrastructure Transition Programme (LCITP).

The projects include:

Glenrothes Next Generation Heat. The project aims to find district heat customers for RWEs local CHP plant, which has lost a key industrial heat load.

Fair Isle Unified Low Carbon Electricity Storage. This aims to develop a collaborative local energy model based on a Class 1 wind turbine (required for the wind speeds on Fair Isle), storage system, fly wheel and solar.

REStore demonstrator. Nova Innovation and Denchi will build and operate an energy storage solution for the Shetland Tidal Array.

Tackling Fuel Poverty and Grid balancing with Smart Electric Storage. VCharge technology will be used to enable heaters to be charged at different times for each tenant and each room based on their own requirements and lifestyle.

Star Renewable Energy ESCO. A heat pump project will draw water from the River Clyde and supply heat to a number of public buildings and four tower blocks in New Gorbals.

Stirling Renewable Heat Demonstration Project.

Stirling Council, Scottish Water Horizons, Doosan Babcock and Stirling Community will  combine an existing anaerobic digestion plant with a fuel cell CHP to deliver low carbon heat to the Stirling Community. It is intended for this to be an initial seed point for a wider district heat network that would cover the city.

Hunterston Energy Storage Project. SSE will deploy a wind-integrated Li-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) at Hunterston National Offshore Wind Turbine Test Facility.