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.

Thread: 1/x 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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Scotland outperforms UK in reducing emissions

Well done Scotland :)

(Flag up to @HelenArmet & @NewsOrkney) archive.fo/uh4QB There is a part that says Scotland is "lagging on cleaning up transport", but these figures are from 2016 - the British Government takes forever to collate the data - so they're already out of date. We've made significant progress since then.

It's not time to panic, but if I had repeat prescriptions for critical medication, I'd be checking my calendar to see if any of them fell due around the end of March 2019. Then I'd be asking my doctor about a one-off extra long repeat to shift that date. archive.fo/8hqK1 For example: if I had a prescription that repeated every 8 weeks, and one of those repeats fell due at the end of March 2019, I'd ask for my next repeat to cover 12 weeks before going back to my normal 8 weeks.

Oh, you're looking for advice?

OK.

Devolve Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy in full to Scotland. We'll *show* you how it's done.

@claireperrymp @beisgovuk @NicolaSturgeon @WingsScotland #CleanGrowth #GreenGB

archive.fo/TG4PT First point: we can give tidal turbines a level playing field by funding their development properly. Wind turbines got research funding, grants for pilot installations, Renewable Obligation Certificates, Feed-In Tariffs and Contracts for Difference.