A Critical Review of Scottish Renewable and Low Carbon Energy Policy

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...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Wood, Geoffrey (Editor), Baker, Keith (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
SeriesEnergy, Climate and the Environment
Subjects
Social sciences.
Renewable energy resources.
Energy policy.
Energy and state.
Great Britain > Politics and government.
Renewable energy sources.
Alternate energy sources.
Green energy industries.
Environmental policy.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319568980
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-56898-0
Physical DescriptionXXV, 225 p. 4 illus. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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