Transmission Grid Problems Must Be Fixed to Meet Targets for Renewable Power Energy: Network Energy: Network Expert Warns Against Long Planning Delays

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SCOTLAND will miss its target to generate half its electricity from renewable sources by 2020 unless the government fixes the country's transmission problems quickly, a senior executive of a leading wind farm developer will tell a major energy conference this week.

Dr Keith MacLean, head of policy and public affairs at Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), who will address the Scottish Council for Development and Industry's Scotland's Energy Future conference in Edinburgh on Tuesday, told the Sunday Herald: "Without an adequate electricity grid system to plug into, our renewable ambitions won't be realised."

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Transmission Grid Problems Must Be Fixed to Meet Targets for Renewable Power Energy: Network Energy: Network Expert Warns Against Long Planning Delays

The warning comes as the Scottish government's rejection of a new generation of nuclear generators comes under renewed attack, this time by the Scottish Chambers of Commerce, which publishes its policy ...

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