What could be done to ensure that community benefit funds from developers are used to support lasting improvements in the areas around wind farms.
How should communities benefit from wind-farm developments?
Providing benefits to communities affected by wind-farm development is a matter of justice: a means of redressing the impacts on communities adversely affected by wind farms. More needs to be done to ensure that community benefit funds from developers are used to support lasting improvements in the areas around wind farms.
one way of translating community benefit funds from large-scale renewable energy projects into local resilience would be to channel a proportion of these funds into locally-owned renewable energy projects.