A Critical Review of Scottish Renewable and Low Carbon Energy Policy

Geoffrey Wood is a Teaching Fellow in International Energy Law and Policy at the School of Law (University of Stirling) and is actively involved in research on energy and environmental law and governance specialising in energy policy, devolution, and low carbon transitions, with a focus on optimising policy delivery in terms of environmental, social, economic and technological outcomes. Keith Baker is a Researcher at the School of Engineering and the Built Environment (Glasgow Caledonian University), specialising in fuel poverty, energy policy, and sustainable built environments. He is a co-founder of the Initiative for Carbon Accounting (www.icarb.org), co-author of Carbon Management in the Built Environment (Routledge, 2012), and a member of the Advisory Board of the European Energy Poverty Observatory.

1. Introduction: Aye. Naw. Mibbe.- 2. Large-scale Renewables: Policy and Practice under Devolution.- 3. Community Renewables: Balancing Optimism with Reality.- 4. Marine Renewables: A Distinctly Scottish Dimension?.- 5. Renewable Heat: The Perfect Storm?.- 6. Scotland, Nuclear Energy Policy and Independence.- 7. Reducing Demand: Energy Efficiency and Behavioural Change.- 8. Crossing the Rubicon: The 2015 Renewable Electricity Reforms and Implications for Scotland.- 9. Trouble on the Horizon? Further Devolution and Renewable Electricity Policy in Scotland.- 10. Scottish Electricity and Independence.- 11. Epilogue: Scotland Moving Forward.