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OFGEM - the UK Government's energy regulator - are the biggest obstacle to making full use of #Scotland's #renewable #energy resources.
Energy policy is reserved to the UK Government, so there's absolutely nothing the Scottish Government can do about #Ofgem.
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Energy policy is reserved to the UK Government, so there's absolutely nothing the Scottish Government can do about #Ofgem.
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Here's a BBC article where Ofgem have supposedly given the "green light" for the first ever grid connection to Shetland.
(Believe it or not, we're in 2019 and the UK has never bothered to connect #Shetland to the National Grid.)
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(Believe it or not, we're in 2019 and the UK has never bothered to connect #Shetland to the National Grid.)
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Unfortunately, approval for the grid connection to Shetland is conditional on the UK Government funding a wind farm project there, which will in turn be conditional on being able to transmit power to the National Grid.
Catch-22.
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Catch-22.
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