Report focuses on Scotland's energy systems

The report outlines a vision for Scotland to harness its abundant natural resources and world class technology innovation capabilities to develop a dynamic, smart, energy efficient energy system.

It lays out a new approach to energy infrastructure and presents a range of recommendations including the need for planning to consider the opportunity for local power, heat and transport demand and generation solutions, and new policy and market mechanisms to properly reward the benefits and efficiencies of decentralised and smart solutions compared to today’s energy system.

Investment in innovation to develop, test and demonstrate the new technology solutions to support their commercialisation and full-scale roll-out will also be critical. An appraisal of the supply chain benefits nationally and export opportunities internationally would further reinforce the economic value generated.

To read the paper in full please visit http://www.carbontrust.com/media/671519/scotland-innovation-potential.pdf