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Renewable sources generated enough electricity to meet 90% of total demand
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Scotland generated electricity from renewable sources last year to meet over 90% of the country’s total electricity consumption.
Output from renewable sources covered 90.1% of electricity consumption, the Scottish government said in its annual energy statement.
Overall, the amount of electricity, transport and heat energy produced in Scotland from green resources increased between 2017 and 2018 to 21.1%, it said.
Scottish Energy Minister Paul Wheelhouse
(pictured, right) said: “This year’s Energy Statement shows that we are continuing to make strong progress towards building a greener, fairer and more equal society and economy and to meeting our world leading climate change targets.
“In particular, we continue to make good progress in areas such as renewable electricity with, in 2019, Scotland’s renewable electricity generation having grown to such an extent that it was able to meet the equivalent of 90.1% of Scotland’s gross electricity consumption making 2019 ano
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.
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