― Common Weal strongly disagrees with the proposal to end export and generation tariffs for renewable energy on 31st March 2019.
― Doing so will be irrevocably harmful to the renewable industry with the solar industry likely to be badly affected.
This independent report to the Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council gives:
Fuel poverty is not only worse in rural Scotland than in urban Scotland, it also has different characteristics.
Scotland heats the majority of its homes and buildings in inefficient and deleterious efforts to become a net zero-carbon nation. Much more effective than individual boilers would be a system of District Heating Systems (DHS).
A call for the Scottish Government to launch a National Energy Company and a Scottish Energy Development Agency. These bodies would work together to rapidly and strategically decarbonise Scotland’s energy network whilst also supporting community energy projects and developing the new skills and
Scotland generates more renewable energy that it uses. A 1:53 minute video.