The Forum for Scotland’s Renewable Energy Industry Grant Thoms Press & Parliamentary Officer

The Forum for Scotland’s Renewable Energy Industry

Grant Thoms

Press & Parliamentary Officer


What is Scottish Renewables?• Member-led trade association since 1996

• Over 150 commercial members

• 50 Associate members from NGOs, public bodies, communities and individuals

• Sectors - wind, marine, hydro, bioenergy and microgeneration including solar power

• High level policy formulation

• Providing information to members

• Influencing decision-makers

• Creating viable and sustainable markets for renewable technologies


Governance

Scottish Renewables’ board of directors- Elected from membership• Working groups on wind, marine, bioenergy, grid,

planning, microgeneration & small-scale renewables, communications

• Hydro working group is Scottish Committee of British Hydropower Association

• Joint secretariat for Scottish Biomass Network with ConFor

• Joint Secretariat for Scottish Parliament Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Group with Energy Saving Trust


Staff

Maf Smith – chief executiveJason Ormiston – wind, planning, grid &

microgenerationJenny Hogan – marine, energy from waste &

bioenergyCalum McCallum – events & marketing

Victoria Tracey – membership & financeGrant Thoms – press & parliamentary


Renewable Energy: it’s more than just wind


HYDRO – longest established renewable providing 11.5% of Scotland’s electricity in 2004


WIND 60 windfarms operating or under construction - capacity 1.75GW


MARINE

14GW of potential off Scotland’s coast

•wave convertor

•wave breaker

•tidal


BIOMASS

First commercial electricity generation plant from biomass under construction near Lockerbie

Supply chain opportunities in forestry materials, installation and maintenance of wood burning appliances


MICROGENERATION - SOLAR• Scotland has an excellent

climate for solar heating in Europe

• We need to heat our houses for more months in the year

• Meaning we can use more solar energy that’s available


Different styles of pipes are installed beside a building. A liquid is piped through the pipes to pick up the heat from the ground or, in the summer, to bring heat from the building to the ground.

Microgeneration - Geothermal


Microgeneration – wind turbines

• Renewable Devices Ltd – based at Roslin, Midlothian

• SWIFT turbine constructed & assembled on site

• Joint venture with Scottish & Southern Energy – order for 1,000 devices

• SSE to act as broker in selling and installing to consumers & businesses


Case Study – Pelamis wave convertor

• Ocean Power Delivery - HQ in Leith

• Constructed & assembled in Stonehaven, Ardnish & Methil

• Tested at EMEC on Orkney

• First commercial ‘farm’ project in Portugal


Economic benefit

• What the Danes did for wind the Scots can do with marine energy converters– 20,000 jobs and domination of a global market

worth tens of billions of pounds– Unemployment originally halved in

Campbeltown by Vestas Celtic plant

• By 2020 the wind industry could support 8,000 jobs, biomass 2000, hydro 1,000 and marine…?


Supply Chain opportunities

Engineering

Manufacturing

Assembly

Transport

Services

Consultancy

Home Installation and Maintenance


Essential Reading

Delivering New Generation of Energy: Route Map to Scotland’s Renewable Future

(available at www.scottishrenewables.com)

For the future:

Jobs Page – vacancies, internships, and looking for work

Documents

The Forum for Scotland’s Renewable Energy Industry Grant Thoms Press & Parliamentary Officer