The Forum for Scotland’s Renewable Energy Industry Grant Thoms Press & Parliamentary Officer

The Forum for Scotland’s Renewable Energy Industry What is Scottish Renewables? Member-led trade association since 1996 Over 150 commercial members 50 Associate members from NGOs, public bodies, communities and individuals Sectors - wind, marine, hydro, bioenergy and microgeneration including solar power High level policy formulation Providing information to members Influencing decision-makers Creating viable and sustainable markets for renewable technologies

The Forum for Scotland’s Renewable Energy Industry Governance Scottish Renewables’ board of directors - Elected from membership Working groups on wind, marine, bioenergy, grid, planning, microgeneration & small-scale renewables, communications Hydro working group is Scottish Committee of British Hydropower Association Joint secretariat for Scottish Biomass Network with ConFor Joint Secretariat for Scottish Parliament Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Group with Energy Saving Trust

The Forum for Scotland’s Renewable Energy Industry Staff Maf Smith – chief executive Jason Ormiston – wind, planning, grid & microgeneration Jenny Hogan – marine, energy from waste & bioenergy Calum McCallum – events & marketing Victoria Tracey – membership & finance Grant Thoms – press & parliamentary

The Forum for Scotland’s Renewable Energy Industry Renewable Energy: it’s more than just wind

The Forum for Scotland’s Renewable Energy Industry HYDRO – longest established renewable providing 11.5% of Scotland’s electricity in 2004

The Forum for Scotland’s Renewable Energy Industry WIND 60 windfarms operating or under construction - capacity 1.75GW

The Forum for Scotland’s Renewable Energy Industry MARINE 14GW of potential off Scotland’s coast wave convertor wave breaker tidal

The Forum for Scotland’s Renewable Energy Industry BIOMASS First commercial electricity generation plant from biomass under construction near Lockerbie Supply chain opportunities in forestry materials, installation and maintenance of wood burning appliances

The Forum for Scotland’s Renewable Energy Industry MICROGENERATION - SOLAR Scotland has an excellent climate for solar heating in Europe We need to heat our houses for more months in the year Meaning we can use more solar energy that’s available

The Forum for Scotland’s Renewable Energy Industry Different styles of pipes are installed beside a building. A liquid is piped through the pipes to pick up the heat from the ground or, in the summer, to bring heat from the building to the ground. Microgeneration - Geothermal

The Forum for Scotland’s Renewable Energy Industry Microgeneration – wind turbines Renewable Devices Ltd – based at Roslin, Midlothian SWIFT turbine constructed & assembled on site Joint venture with Scottish & Southern Energy – order for 1,000 devices SSE to act as broker in selling and installing to consumers & businesses

The Forum for Scotland’s Renewable Energy Industry Case Study – Pelamis wave convertor Ocean Power Delivery - HQ in Leith Constructed & assembled in Stonehaven, Ardnish & Methil Tested at EMEC on Orkney First commercial ‘farm’ project in Portugal

The Forum for Scotland’s Renewable Energy Industry Economic benefit What the Danes did for wind the Scots can do with marine energy converters –20,000 jobs and domination of a global market worth tens of billions of pounds –Unemployment originally halved in Campbeltown by Vestas Celtic plant By 2020 the wind industry could support 8,000 jobs, biomass 2000, hydro 1,000 and marine…?

The Forum for Scotland’s Renewable Energy Industry Supply Chain opportunities Engineering Manufacturing Assembly Transport Services Consultancy Home Installation and Maintenance

The Forum for Scotland’s Renewable Energy Industry Essential Reading Delivering New Generation of Energy: Route Map to Scotland’s Renewable Future (available at For the future: Jobs Page – vacancies, internships, and looking for work