Making waves, blowing in the wind or just going up in smoke?
The Government’s Policy & Innovation Unit’s review of UK energy policy is the hot topic of the moment. It offers a vision of the energy needs of the future, in terms of technologies, efficiency gains, and economic frameworks.
Scotland's energy
There will be a commercially strong and emerging role for renewables, where many see Scotland as having a major role to play. Yet the PIU review keeps options open on coal and nuclear power — a UK Government reserved matter — as part of its view of the low carbon future.
Does this amount to a secure and sustainable energy policy? Are there things the energy industry and other key industrial sectors could be doing to make it more secure and sustainable? A White Paper is promised in the autumn: the Edge Debate was an opportunity to rehearse our responses.
Louise Batchelor of the BBC chaired the Debate.
Paper 1: Energy Issues for Scotland
Rhona Brankin, MSP and Member of the Enterprise & Lifelong Learning Committee
Paper 2: Energy Policy - Some Thoughts
Fred Dinning, Environment Director, Scottish Power
Paper 3: The King is Dead, Long Live the King!
Professor Brian Smart, Heriot Watt Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Edinburgh
SISTech was also responsible for chairing the seminar “Rethinking Urban Design“.
Royal High School Edinburgh
The debate was held in the Chamber of the Royal High School