Lussa Community Wind 

A Community Benefit Society established to support communities across Kintyre

Lussa Community Wind Limited is a Community Benefit Society (Registered with the Financial Conduct Authority [no. 8576]) established to carry on business for the benefit of the community at large through furthering community development, education and regeneration within the boundaries of the following local communities: Campbeltown Community Council, East Kintyre Community Council and West Kintyre Community Council, The Laggan community council, Southend community council, Gigha community council, Tarbert & Skipness community council and South Knapdale community council ('the Community").

Lussa Community Wind services the communities impacted by specific windfarms, or in which specific communities have been invited by the developer to participate in a shared ownership opportunity, by donating its surpluses equally to the beneficiary charities nominated by the individual community councils.

For example, Lussa Community Wind acts as the conduit for community benefit funding received from SPR’s BaT3 operation (that began generating power in 2021) to be donated to  three Anchor Charity Members - East Kintyre Community Fund (EKCF), Campbeltown Community Windfarm Fund (CCWF) and West Kintyre Community Fund (WKCF).

The BaT3 windfarm, developed by Scottish Power Renewables [SPR]/Iberdrola, comprises 14 x Mark 3.0 Vestas turbines generating 50MW of clean sustainable energy sufficient to power more than 46,000 homes. It is the first windfarm in Scotland to be subject to a PPA with the corporate giant Amazon which guarantees the price to be paid for the power generated and fed into the National Grid.

The three local communities impacted will receive around £260K p.a. (approx. £5.6 million in total) over the initial 25 years of operation of this windfarm, donated via Lussa Community Wind.

Meet the Board of Directors