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Scottish Executive Consultation on Energy Efficiency and Microgeneration Strategy

Responses to the Executive’s Draft Energy Efficiency and Microgeneration Strategy need to be submitted by 11th June 2007

This document sets out for the first time the Executive's aims for improving energy efficiency and encouraging a greater uptake of microgeneration. Together energy efficiency and microgeneration can help achieve a low carbon future for our homes and workplaces, therefore it is hoped that this Strategy reflects a more joined-up approach.

Energy Efficiency and Microgeneration: Achieving a low carbon future: A Strategy for Scotland. Draft Version, March 2007

Please respond.

To help with your response you might want to look at:

1. Living with a warm home and a carbon footprint – recommendations for ending fuel poverty in Scotland, Energy Action Scotland, April 2007

2. Children Living in Fuel Poverty Briefing, Produced by Barnardo’s, Capability Scotland, Child Poverty Action Group, Children in Scotland, Save the Children, December 2006

3. Friends of the Earth Scotland Press Release about the Energy Efficiency and Microgeneration Strategy Document, 12th March 2007.

FoES express disappointment that following a wait of nearly two years, for this Strategy, the Executive has produced a timid consultation and only a little more cash for an existing programme. There are no new targets, no more resources for tackling fuel poverty and nothing new to say on transport.

4. Friends of the Earth Scotland’s Introduction to Micropower.

5. Scottish Renewables produced a renewable energy manifesto for the Scottish Parliamentary elections which has a section on microgeneration.
Changing the Energy Climate, Scottish Renewables, March 2007.

6. Scottish Renewables Briefing on Microgeneration.