AN independent Scotland would establish a state energy company to help the country become self-sufficient in its supplies, drive down carbon emissions and allow the creation of a sovereign wealth fund, according to proposals which have been submitted to the SNP conference. The plans would see the publicly owned corporation specialise in renewable energy and recruit people from the oil and gas sector as the fossil fuel industry is wound down. They have been sent by the SNP’s Isle of Arran branch to a party committee tasked with drawing up the agenda for the conference, to be held virtually in mid-September, after being developed by the party’s policy development committee.