The process of transferring the power is also causing concern on the mainland too.
Some communities are objecting to plans by SSE and others to erect large pylons to transmit electricity from new renewable projects to cities and towns throughout Scotland, England and Wales.
“Somebody needs to police the line between net zero ideology and rampant commercial opportunism,” said Kate Matthews of Save Our Mearns, a group campaigning against SSE’s plans to install 66 miles (106km) of new pylons from Kintore in Aberdeenshire to Tealing in Angus.
“Angus and Aberdeenshire are looking at 10 to 20 years of industrialisation, so constant building, constant applications, thousands of acres of battery energy storage, thousands of acres of solar turbine hydrogen plants,” said Ms Matthews.
“We’ll be paying the price for generations. It will be unrecognisable,” she added.
Ms Matthews said “the rest of the UK doesn’t know what’s coming,” with plans for new pylons in Essex, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, the Lake District, parts of Wales, and elsewhere.