Scotland’s newly appointed Energy Minister is set to renewables industry for the first time since his appointment.
Paul Wheelhouse will speak to delegates at Scottish Renewables’ Low-Carbon Heat Conference in Perth tomorrow.
He’s expected to address topics including climate change, renewable heat and the new Energy Strategy for Scotland.
The politician said: “Scotland is already a world-leader in tackling climate change, with among the most ambitious statutory targets in the world and strong progress to date, with a 38% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions since 1990.
“However, we have to achieve more and, as the First Minister announced last month, we will establish a new and more testing target for 2020 of reducing actual Scottish emissions by at least 50%.
“Our approach to heat in particular offers many exciting opportunities – not only helping us to deliver on our climate change ambitions, but also contributing to our efforts to promote growth and tackle inequalities – particularly fuel poverty.
“We are developing a new, overarching Energy Strategy for Scotland, which means developing a ‘whole systems approach’ considering Scotland’s energy supply and consumption as equal priorities, and building a genuinely integrated approach to power, transport and heat.”
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