Renewable Fish and Chips’ boosts community

Based in Cairndow, the project was the idea of local community group, Here We Are, and is supported by the Scottish Biomass Support Scheme, Forestry Commission Scotland and Lakeland Smolt, one of Scotland’s leading suppliers of salmon eggs, smolts and fry.   

Thought to be the first of its kind in Scotland, the system converts sustainable wood sources into chips to power a boiler located on the fish farm. The boiler is used to maintain water temperatures at a level that creates optimum growing conditions for high quality salmon.  

The project is set to provide 2.5m kW hours of renewable energy and represents a carbon saving of 900 tons per annum.