FAMILIES benefitting from a community energy scheme in the Highlands have been given a Christmas bonus payment from the “windfall” profits made by the project.
Around 200 households in Sunart, a small village in Lochaber, will be given a cheque of £150 from the unexpected £30,000 bumper profit generated by the community-owned hydro power company which operates in the area.
Sunart Community Renewables (SCR) is currently working its way through the mountain of cheques which are going to every household in the area which is occupied by at least one person who lives there permanently – holiday homes are not eligible for the payment.
