Scotland’s renewables heat sector has “a steep hill to climb” if it is to meet the Government’s 2020 generation target, industry body Scottish Renewables has warned.
Ahead of its heat and bioenergy conference in Perth later this month, the body warned that industry and Government must work together if the 11% renewable heat goal is to be achieved.
The event comes just weeks after energy major SSE withdrew from plans to build large-scale biomass plants in Rosyth, Grangemouth and Dundee.
“We need district heating, biomass, geothermal energy, solar thermal systems and heat pumps to become commonplace in homes, businesses and on industrial sites across Scotland a process which will create hundreds of jobs and drive a step-change in the way Scotland thinks about keeping warm,” said Scottish Renewables’ policy manager Stephanie Clark.
“Renewable heat has the potential to end the misery of cold homes for the 27% of Scots households who are in fuel poverty, as well as making a huge contribution to our targets for a carbon-free future.”
Energy Minister Fergus Ewing is expected to give the keynote address at the event at Perth Concert Hall on April 28.
