A Critical Review of Scottish Renewable and Low Carbon Energy Policy [electronic resource] /
Wood, Geoffrey.editor.
Baker, Keith.editor.
This book offers comprehensive coverage of current energy policy in Scotland focussing on non-fossil fuel energy options: renewables, nuclear power and energy efficiency. Covering issues of policy and practice, planning, legislation and regulation of a range of sustainable energy technologies in the context of devolved government, key experts explore these issues in terms of the ongoing Scottish independence debate, Brexit and further devolution in this vitally important and timely book. The book emphasises two further distinctive areas: constitutional change and the role of sub-national authorities in renewable and low carbon energy policy and practice. The clear focus on renewable and low carbon energy policy and practice and sub-national authority level of governance of energy means that it will be of particular relevance as a case study for those countries either in the process of deploying renewable and/or low carbon energy technologies or looking to do so. The authors discuss the many lessons to be learnt from the Scottish and UK experience. By providing a critical analysis of the subject, this book will be an invaluable reference to students, practitioners and decision-makers interested in renewable and low carbon energy transitions, energy planning and policy.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
1. Introduction: Aye. Naw. Mibbe -- 2. Large-scale Renewables: Policy and Practice under Devolution -- 3. Community Renewables: Balancing Optimism with Reality -- 4. Marine Renewables: A Distinctly Scottish Dimension? -- 5. Renewable Heat: The Perfect Storm? -- 6. Scotland, Nuclear Energy Policy and Independence -- 7. Reducing Demand: Energy Efficiency and Behavioural Change -- 8. Crossing the Rubicon: The 2015 Renewable Electricity Reforms and Implications for Scotland -- 9. Trouble on the Horizon? Further Devolution and Renewable Electricity Policy in Scotland -- 10. Scottish Electricity and Independence -- 11. Epilogue: Scotland Moving Forward.
This book offers comprehensive coverage of current energy policy in Scotland focussing on non-fossil fuel energy options: renewables, nuclear power and energy efficiency. Covering issues of policy and practice, planning, legislation and regulation of a range of sustainable energy technologies in the context of devolved government, key experts explore these issues in terms of the ongoing Scottish independence debate, Brexit and further devolution in this vitally important and timely book. The book emphasises two further distinctive areas: constitutional change and the role of sub-national authorities in renewable and low carbon energy policy and practice. The clear focus on renewable and low carbon energy policy and practice and sub-national authority level of governance of energy means that it will be of particular relevance as a case study for those countries either in the process of deploying renewable and/or low carbon energy technologies or looking to do so. The authors discuss the many lessons to be learnt from the Scottish and UK experience. By providing a critical analysis of the subject, this book will be an invaluable reference to students, practitioners and decision-makers interested in renewable and low carbon energy transitions, energy planning and policy.
Environmental policy.
Environment.
Renewable energy sources.
Great Britain-Politics and gover.
Environmental Policy.
Energy Policy, Economics and Management.
Energy Efficiency.
Environment Studies.
Renewable and Green Energy.
British Politics.