‘Much fairer’: all profits from new Orkney windfarm to benefit locals

Sweyn Johnston (left) and Chris Purnell of Orkney council at the site where construction will begin. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

Every islander on Orkney is expected to benefit from a major windfarm being built by the local council after it won £62m in financing from the UK’s national wealth fund.

All the profits from the project to build up to 18 turbines across three islands on Orkney will be spent on local services, council officials said, in what is expected to become the UK’s largest publicly owned windfarm.