These are impressive statistics however I would also like to know the sources and methodology of how they have been reached. I need to preface this by saying I love Scotland and fully support the clean energy direction it is going in. No doubt Scotland has significant natural resources, by that I mean by energy terms the 'fuel' which is able to generate electricity and heat. However, Scotland is also comparably a very small country (including Scottish waters vs. Europe so I am confused as to how a very small country can generate 1/4 of what Europe as a collective can do. It turns out there has been an enquiry made to Scottish Government on this earlier this year (someone beat me to it), and they refer to reports from 1999 and 2001 - very dated but I won't go down that path, in addition they use the metric of electricity generation i.e. MW (megawatt). So looking at the latest statistics, by end 2020, Scotland Offshore Wind installed capacity was 906MW, Wave & Tidal 22MW. In Europe by comparison, Offshore Wind was 24,887MW and Wave/Tidal 454MW. For both, Scotland is well under 25%, and this also applies in terms of net generation (TWh). Although Scotland relative share is much smaller, they are still impressive of course and much to celebrate. I am all for championing Scotland, but I think people deserve to see the facts for what they truly are.
Just watched a video on Tik Tok about Scotlands natural resources. I think you have missed three zeros off the GDP figures. Please check and reissue if needs be.
Scots will be so rich when they leave the uk, just look at all the corruption in westminster, so much money would be saved and go to project that help the economy in a sensible way.
Excellent & beautiful too 👍
Excellent, nice to see you back.
Good stats but maybe better te have used a freshwater loch rather than the sea for 90% of the UKs fresh water at .25 :) . Cheers
Nothing United about the united kingdom. Scotland doesn't have tae do anything until WM start to listen.
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These are impressive statistics however I would also like to know the sources and methodology of how they have been reached. I need to preface this by saying I love Scotland and fully support the clean energy direction it is going in. No doubt Scotland has significant natural resources, by that I mean by energy terms the 'fuel' which is able to generate electricity and heat. However, Scotland is also comparably a very small country (including Scottish waters vs. Europe so I am confused as to how a very small country can generate 1/4 of what Europe as a collective can do. It turns out there has been an enquiry made to Scottish Government on this earlier this year (someone beat me to it), and they refer to reports from 1999 and 2001 - very dated but I won't go down that path, in addition they use the metric of electricity generation i.e. MW (megawatt). So looking at the latest statistics, by end 2020, Scotland Offshore Wind installed capacity was 906MW, Wave & Tidal 22MW. In Europe by comparison, Offshore Wind was 24,887MW and Wave/Tidal 454MW. For both, Scotland is well under 25%, and this also applies in terms of net generation (TWh). Although Scotland relative share is much smaller, they are still impressive of course and much to celebrate.
I am all for championing Scotland, but I think people deserve to see the facts for what they truly are.
Just watched a video on Tik Tok about Scotlands natural resources. I think you have missed three zeros off the GDP figures. Please check and reissue if needs be.
Scots will be so rich when they leave the uk, just look at all the corruption in westminster, so much money would be saved and go to project that help the economy in a sensible way.
Mate, whats your source for the 25% of Europe's offshore wind resource? Surely that's an outdated figure?
What are you claiming is a resource?