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Half of Scotland's Energy Consumption Came From Renewables Last Year (heraldscotland.com)
An anonymous reader quotes an article on Herald Scotland: Scotland has met a key target for renewable energy consumption, according to official figures. Statistics published by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change show 57.7% of Scottish electricity consumption came from renewables in 2015 -- 7.7% ahead of the 50% target. The SNP welcomed the figures and pledged to bring forward plans to go further if re-elected in May. Deputy First Minister and SNP campaign director John Swinney said: "The SNP have long championed green energy and these new figures show the huge progress we have made - but we are determined to go even further.
In general, there are three objections to bragging about hydro:
1. It's old-ass technology, and will only impress people with it's sheer scale - not with your ability to make it.
2. It's environmentally destructive, so way to go you just flooded one environment and destroyed a river system.
3. It isn't available everywhere, so good for you but it does us no good.
If Scotland implemented solar, now that would be impressive. All of those green plants must live on something.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
That's what they said 20 years ago about today re: oil.
As technology advances we'll always find new ways to get at oil. Even if it's grinding up seagulls for whatever surface oil has stuck to feathers.
In reality there is no "peak oil", eventually solar will get good enough to replace many uses of oil, and the stigma against nuclear energy will fade much as children grow up to no longer be scared of monsters in the closet.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Scotland's electricity comes from the UK National Grid. This is the country that gave the world Gordon Brown with his double counting. The ruling Nationalists are desperate for a positive headline after decades of "it's oor oil" - and look how that worked out. I'd trust an SNP statistic even less than an average statistic.