Moray West Tackling the climate crisis
3/02/20, 4:43 PM
Tackling the climate crisis means building the right infrastructure in the right place...
...Building windfarms where the wind blows most; where there is space for development, where there is public support and rich heritage of maritime skills from oil, gas and fisheries.
This might sound self-evident, but currently public policy works against that dynamic rather than with it. Any commodity needs transported from where is it made to where it is used; that transport has a cost. Electricity is no different, but the National Grid charging regime was developed before renewables became a reality, before climate change was an issue, and at a time when the 'dash for gas' meant new power stations could be located almost anywhere...