Making Scotland a leader in green energy

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Making Scotland a leader in green energy

Objective: to facilitate the development of renewable electricity so as to reduce carbon emissions and promote economic growth as well as to enable greater exploitation of the renewable energy resource and drive down costs.

• In meeting our 2011 interim target of 31% of gross electricity consumption from renewable sources we expect the vast bulk of new capacity to be delivered by additional onshore wind power stations. Smaller scale developments - wind and hydro - are valued for their contribution to energy supply and community benefit and we wish to encourage the development of these.
• Onshore wind will continue to increase beyond 2011 playing a strong part in meeting our 2020 target, but we also expect offshore wind, marine and tidal and biomass to make significant contributions in the next decade. The Scottish Government wishes to support the development of emerging technologies so as to achieve a balanced mix of renewable generation.
• The Scottish Government supports powers in the UK Energy Bill which will allow the provision of varying levels of support for different technologies under the Renewable Obligation Scotland ( ROS) mechanism, thus driving the development of less mature technologies.
• To achieve our objectives significant increases in grid capacity will be required, both onshore and offshore. The Scottish Government is in dialogue with BERR and Ofgem to ensure that regulatory mechanisms are aligned fully with the need to exploit renewable resources - which are found predominantly in Scotland.
• A major study on grid security concludes that the Scottish transmission network could cope with 8 GW of installed renewables capacity in 2020 without the need for significant investment, other than that which has already been approved by Ofgem, and without adversely impacting upon grid system stability or system security.
• We are looking forward to the growth of offshore wind and marine energy and considering potential for export. We are working with European partners to look at how current grid regimes might develop in the future and specifically the feasibility of offshore grids ("supergrids"), which will be essential as we move beyond 2020 towards large scale exports of renewable electricity.

technologies such as HVDC are maturing and becoming more cost effective

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publicati.../10/09093312/5

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Wind and hydro would seem good for them. Oil is reducing too isn't it so they have the incentive.