Ministers face a tricky balancing act meeting emissions targets while taking people with them.
The Scottish government is world-class at setting itself ambitious targets. It's not so good at hitting them.little chance of hitting the emissions reduction targets set for 2030.
The cabinet secretary responsible for net zero, the wellbeing economy and energy , Mairi McAllan, told the BBC'sThe blame, again unsurprisingly, is placed on the Treasury in London for stifling that ambition. Banning the use of fossil fuels to heat homes is one of the toughest demands of the public. It will require a huge investment by government, to incentivise people into spending their own money on better insulation of homes as well as creating a supply pipeline of attractive alternatives.nowhere near its ambitions for replacement of gas and oil home heatingSo far, Westminster funding of its Boiler Upgrade Scheme has achieved less than half its target.
With an estimated bill of £58bn, the three companies that run the high-voltage grid, two of them in Scotland, have set out what they think they need to do to ensure that ambitious windfarm plans, most of them off the coast of Scotland, can be linked to the markets where the electricity will be needed.
The plans for lines between Caithness and Beauly, between Beauly and Peterhead, and from Peterhead south through the Mearns countryside continue to meet fierce opposition from those who don't like pylons, or the increased number and size of onshore turbines that will be hooked into the cables.
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