Energy Statistics for Scotland - Q1 2025

Renewable Electricity Capacity

Scotland’s capacity for electricity generation from renewable sources has increased substantially over the past 10 years and currently stands at 17.7 GW – a 13.9% increase compared to 15.5 GW at the end of the first quarter of 2024 (Figure 2).

The technologies with the largest capacity growth between the first quarter of 2024 and the first quarter of 2025 were fixed offshore wind (1.3 GW increase) and onshore wind (0.7 GW increase).

Figure 2: 

Note - ‘other’ includes the following technologies: shoreline wave/tidal; landfill gas; sewage sludge digestion; energy from waste; animal biomass; and anaerobic digestion.

Source – Energy Trends table 6.1: Renewable electricity capacity and generation (published 26th June 2025)