Energy score
Clean-energy readiness, grid resilience, and solar or efficiency opportunity signals.
Energy in Edinburgh80/100
Energy
Energy Readiness in Edinburgh
Edinburgh benefits from Scotland's strong wind resource and active retrofit and electrification work. Energy in Edinburgh scores 80/100, placing it in the strong group of the indexed set.
- Last updated
- 2026-05-16
- Data year
- 2025
- Module score
- 80/100
Energy readiness
80/100
Solid directional transition score across infrastructure and policy.
Grid adaptation
Strong
Renewable build-out supports planning continuity.
Renewable opportunity
Wind-led
Onshore and offshore wind carry the transition.
Edinburgh energy data table
This HTML table mirrors the visible score cards so important comparison data is never trapped in a browser-only chart.
| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Energy readiness | 80/100 | Wind capacity drives the regional transition. |
| Grid adaptation | Strong | Storage and interconnectors shape grid plans. |
| Renewable opportunity | Wind-led | Resource mix shapes the local transition path. |
Energy city comparison
A crawlable comparison across a selection of same-country and top-scoring cities. The complete set is reachable via the rankings, the cities index, and each city profile.
| City | Score | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Edinburgh (this page) | 80/100 | Edinburgh benefits from Scotland's strong wind resource and active retrofit and electrification work. |
| London | 84/100 | London has strong clean-energy direction with retrofit-led building strategy, balanced against legacy infrastructure complexity. |
| Reading | 74/100 | Reading's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Manchester | 74/100 | Manchester's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Bristol | 74/100 | Bristol's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Bournemouth | 72/100 | Bournemouth's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Milton Keynes | 72/100 | Milton Keynes's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Birmingham | 72/100 | Birmingham's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Leeds | 72/100 | Leeds's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Glasgow | 72/100 | Glasgow's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Cardiff | 72/100 | Cardiff's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Oxford | 72/100 | Oxford's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Cambridge | 72/100 | Cambridge's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Brighton | 72/100 | Brighton's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Southend-on-Sea | 70/100 | Southend-on-Sea's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Northampton | 70/100 | Northampton's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Belfast | 70/100 | Belfast's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Liverpool | 70/100 | Liverpool's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Sheffield | 70/100 | Sheffield's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Luton | 68/100 | Luton's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Preston | 66/100 | Preston's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Brighton and Hove | 66/100 | Brighton and Hove's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Middlesbrough | 64/100 | Middlesbrough's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Stockport | 64/100 | Stockport's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Bolton | 64/100 | Bolton's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Leicester | 60/100 | Leicester's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Coventry | 60/100 | Coventry's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Portsmouth | 60/100 | Portsmouth's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Derby | 60/100 | Derby's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Barnsley | 60/100 | Barnsley's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Chester | 58/100 | Chester's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
Interpretation
Energy scoring weighs resource context, infrastructure maturity, and adaptation capacity. Across the indexed cities the energy average is 64/100, so Edinburgh is 16 points above the median. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-16. Drawn from 3 institutional references.
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Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation. Verified datasets are being integrated; official sources should be used for critical decisions.
Sources
3 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation; verified datasets are being integrated and official sources should be used for critical decisions.
- NASA: NASA POWER
Used as an energy-resource and weather-normalization reference.
- IPCC: AR6 WGII Chapter 6: Cities, settlements and key infrastructure
Used to explain urban climate vulnerability and adaptation scoring logic.
- International Energy Agency: Empowering Urban Energy Transitions
Used to ground energy-readiness scoring in international transition guidance.
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