YCF Special Report on Renewable Energy in Scotland
This Special Report was distributed to delegates at the All-Energy conference and exhibition in Aberdeen in May 2009.
All-Energy (
www.all-energy.co.uk) is Europe's largest event dedicated to the renewable energy sector.
See below for contents.
This publication was sponsored by:
Grant Thornton LLP
Grant Thornton UK LLP is a leading financial and business adviser, operating out of 30 offices and 3 staff support sites. Led by over 250 partners and employing over 4,000 of the profession's brightest minds, we provide personalised assurance, tax and specialist advisory services to over 40,000 individuals, privately-held businesses and public interest entities.
Hillington Park Innovation Centre
The award winning Hillington Park Innovation Centre offers a premier incubation facility for the next generation of potential high growth, innovative start-up technology companies in the West of Scotland.
ITI Energy
ITI Energy is committed to making brilliant ideas a commercial reality. We commission trailbalzing R&D programmes to generate market-driven, commercially focused business opportunities in the energy sector. The intellectual assets from these programmes are then commercialised for the benefit of the Scottish economy.
www.itienergy.com
Scottish Oceans Institute
The Scottish Oceans Institute is an inter-disciplinary institute of scientists with interests in the marine environment. SOI focuses on fundamental and applied research, and teaching marine science at an advanced level.
University of Strathclyde
The University of Strathclyde has recently been awarded funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (ESPRC) for a new Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) in Wind Energy Systems. The Centre combines pioneering research and advanced skills training to help the UK meet its ambitious renewable energy targets, and address the widely accepted skills shortage in this rapidly growing sector.
CONTENTS:
Introduction
by Jim Mather MSP, Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism
Global energy
This chapter gives a brief summary of current sources of energy and compares them with the pattern of expected demand, to give a global context for the renewable energy scene in Scotland.
Current status of renewables
This chapter briefly reviews the main sources of renewable energy, and indicates their current position towards full commercialisation.
Scotland’s energy balance and current strategy
This chapter sets out Scotland’s current and future energy supplies, its favourable geographic location for wind and wave energy, and the government’s strategy towards developing a renewable energy capability which can be commercialised in the global marketplace.
Investment in renewable energy
This chapter reviews how renewable projects are priced and financed, and how the investment community sees the prospects for the sector.
Research & development
This chapter describes the work being undertaken in Scotland’s universities and research institutes, programmes such as SE’s Proof of Concept, the foresighting and R&D commissioning of ITI Energy, and the marine testing operations at EMEC.
Landmark projects
This chapter describes some of the pioneering renewable energy projects being undertaken in Scotland at both large scale (eg offshore wind), small scale (eg micro hydro projects), and at community level.
Showcase
This gives one page profiles of some dozen young Scottish companies which are emerging on to the global renewable energy scene.