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Powerful decision
The decision by the UK Government to allow councils the power to sell electricity generated from renewable sources to the National Grid is to be applauded.
This move will allow Scotland's cash strapped councils to raise millions of pounds from renewable energy and help the Scottish Government achieve its renewable energy target of generating 50% of the country's electricity from renewable sources by 2020.
It will also open up a host of opportunities for councils; permitting them to develop wind farms and sell the electricity directly, develop smaller scale community energy projects to supply remote communities or even to self-generate at council offices and sell the excess electricity into the National Grid.
Providing councils with a financial incentive to invest in renewable energy will allow them to create a revenue stream where funds could be used for community benefit or channelled back into Scotland's frontline services, currently facing significant spending cuts.
In the current economic climate, councils will undoubtedly welcome the opportunity to raise funds from renewable sources, generating millions of pounds a year, and this move has the potential to stimulate the next phase in the clean, green, renewables revolution.
Paul Minto
Head of Public Services
HBJ Gateley Wareing, Edinburgh
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