Green Energy A Go-Go

Friends Of The Earth Scotland and WWF Scotland have commissioned a new report from energy analysts which looked at 5 future scenarios for the country, and discovered that it was feasible that Scotland could be run entirely on renewable energy by 2030.

In fact, one of the scenarios has Scotland producing 143% of it's energy needs from renewables!

I'm sceptical enough to know that 143% is perhaps out of our reach - there's no political or business will there to do it - but even the "business as usual" model which sees us hitting government targets (ha!) will see renewables making up 68% of Scotland's generating capacity.

We just have to get on with it.

You can read the report summary in pdf form here or the full report here.