What is standing in the way of offshore wind is not just escalating costs but, says Scottish Renewables, “government decision-making”.
Fears have been rising over threats to Scotland’s offshore wind industry after Swedish state energy giant, Vattenfall, pulled the plug on a major UK project in the North Sea off Norfolk.
But, said Morag Watson, policy director of Scottish Renewables, the real problem is that the “UK Government has taken its eye off the ball.”
“The UK Government is not giving it the attention or status it needs,” she said. “We have this great pipeline of projects that will deliver jobs and economic opportunities and clean, affordable energy to the UK, but on the downside, the government just does not seem to be giving it priority.” https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23696497.uk-gov-taken-eye-off-ball-offshore-wind/?fbclid=IwAR1yxG9uJxcnNzE3rSPaRGHAY_LwMIsvR1FAl1WE-6KCWKVnfnI-riokO_I
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