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The Scottish government has committed to reviewing energy consenting in an updated climate plan looking at the country’s path to hit net zero by 2045.
An updated Electricity Generation Policy statement is expected by 2022 “reflecting the contribution that renewable electricity generation is likely to have to achieving our Net Zero target”, it said.
The paper published today,
Update to the Climate Change Plan: Securing a Green Recovery on a Path to Net Zero, lays out plans to take a “Whole System Energy Approach”, encouraging joined-up and collaborative thinking across sectors, particularly with regards to emerging technologies related to hydrogen, bioenergy and Negative Emissions Technologies.
| UPDATED: 10:27, Tue, Dec 15, 2020
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According to a new energy white paper by the Government, the country will have to “transition completely away from natural gas boilers” in a bid to hit net-zero emissions by 2050.
There is a number which sums up Scotland’s heating headache. It was published this summer - amid all the usual fanfare about the country’s genuine progress on renewable electricity. The figure was a measure of what proportion of Scottish heat comes from oil and gas. It was 93.3%.
Scotland has one of Europe’s best records on clean power. And one of its worst on clean heat. With ambitious targets to get to net zero carbon by 2045 for Scotland and 2050 for the UK, householders and housebuilders, tenants and landlords, have got remarkably little time to wean themselves off now traditional gas boilers.