Sustainable development in Scotland has a number of distinct strands. The idea of sustainable development was used by the Brundtland Commission which...
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Edinburgh (26 October 2010). Renewable energy in Scotland Sustainable development in Scotland Local Energy Scotland HICEC. (2006) Highlands and Islands Community...
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and then confirmed in the 2009 Climate Change Delivery Plan. Maf Smith, director of the Sustainable Development Commission in Scotland said "Governments...
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The Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) was a non-departmental public body responsible for advising the UK Government, Scottish Government, Welsh...
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Scottish Power Limited, trading as ScottishPower, is a vertically integrated energy company based in Glasgow, Scotland. It is a subsidiary of Spanish utility...
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technology in Scotland, with 16,648 megawatts (MW) of installed wind power capacity by Q2 2024. This included 9,756 MW from onshore wind in Scotland and 2...
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Findhorn Ecovillage (category Sustainability in Scotland)
the wind park. Scotland portal Weather portal Renewable energy portal Sustainable development in Scotland Renewable energy in Scotland Centre for Alternative...
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Celtic Renewables (category 2012 establishments in Scotland)
biorefinery at Caledon Green, in Grangemouth, Scotland in 2020 and completed building in November 2021, there are now plans for a second in Speyside. Celtic Renewables...
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Cruachan Power Station (category Hydroelectric power stations in Scotland)
hydroelectric power station in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK. The scheme can provide 440 MW of power and produced 705 GWh in 2009. The turbine hall is located...
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Pelamis Wave Energy Converter (category Wave farms in Scotland)
motion which is used to generate electricity. Developed by the now defunct Scottish company Pelamis Wave Power (formerly Ocean Power Delivery), the Pelamis...
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Community Development Alliance Scotland (CDAS) is a network of organisations that are concerned with community development in Scotland. CDAS is a member...
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Pelamis Wave Power (category 1998 in Scotland)
was established in 1998 and had offices and fabrication facilities in Leith Docks, Edinburgh, Scotland. It went into administration in November 2014. The...
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Scotland has a long history of nuclear research and electricity generation. Work started on the Dounreay reactor in 1955. Four other sites provided electricity...
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Dounreay (redirect from Dounreay Nuclear Power Development Establishment)
(/ˌduːnˈreɪ/; Scottish Gaelic: Dùnrath) is a small settlement and the site of two large nuclear establishments on the north coast of Caithness in the Highland...
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SSE plc (redirect from Scottish and Southern Energy Group)
SSE plc (formerly Scottish and Southern Energy plc) is a multinational energy company headquartered in Perth, Scotland. It is listed on the London Stock...
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North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board (1943–1990) was founded to design, construct and manage hydroelectricity projects in the Highlands of Scotland. It is...
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projects across Scotland in the hope that this seed capital will encourage further private investment, to help develop a fairer, more sustainable economy. £2 billion...
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Sustainable agriculture is farming in sustainable ways meeting society's present food and textile needs, without compromising the ability for current...
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Renewable Energy Development in Scotland, also known as FREDS is a partnership between industry, academia and Government aimed at enabling Scotland to capitalise...
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political party in Scotland. The party has 7 MSPs of 129 in the Scottish Parliament, the party holds 35 of the 1226 councillors at Scottish local Government...
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Torness nuclear power station (category Nuclear power stations in Scotland)
miles (50 km) east of Edinburgh at Torness Point near Dunbar in East Lothian, Scotland. It was the last of the United Kingdom's Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors...
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encourage sustainable development, some of which would form the basis of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 and Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016...
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North Sea oil (redirect from Oil in the North Sea)
or oil shale) mined in the Midland Valley of Scotland. Across the sea in Germany, oil was found in the Wietze field near Hanover in 1859, leading to the...
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alternative - Sustainable Development of Croatia (Croatian: Zelena alternativa - Održivi razvoj Hrvatske) or ORaH (Orah meaning "walnut" in Croatian) is...
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Shetland Gas Plant (category 2016 establishments in Scotland)
The Shetland Gas Plant is a natural-gas processing plant in the Shetland Islands, Scotland. The Shetland Gas Plant is the collection and gas processing...
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of power stations in Scotland includes current and former electricity-generating power stations in Scotland, sorted by type. Scotland is a net exporter...
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February 2018). "Hywind Scotland, World's First Floating Wind Farm, Performing Better Than Expected". CleanTechnica. Sustainable Enterprises Media, Inc...
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Siadar Wave Power Station (category 2011 in Scotland)
off the shore of Siadar Bay, in Lewis, Scotland. The £30 million project, was to be built by Wavegen, received Scottish Government approval on 22 January...
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electricity in Scotland, and by Scottish Hydro-Electric Power Distribution Ltd, the distribution network operator in the north of Scotland. In 2011, power...
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Office for Nuclear Regulation (category Official website not in Wikidata)
systems for nuclear weapon accidents at HMNB Clyde and RNAD Coulport, in Argyll, Scotland. Since about 2013 the ONR has given the two major Atomic Weapons...
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