Robert Burgon: Looking to reform the Microgeneration Certification SchemeScotland will reduce bureaucracy to speed up the adoption of renewables, according to one of the country’s most prominent politicians.Fergus Ewing, Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism, told the World Plumbing Conference in Edinburgh that he was committed to reducing red tape and its associated costs to speed up growth in the renewables market.
Scotland has set a target of producing 100 % of its electricity and 11% of its heat from renewables by 2020. This means up to 200,000 homes will have to be retrofitted at the rate of 20,000 a year. It is estimated that 65% of the workload will be taken up by the plumbing industry.
However, the current adoption rate of renewable technologies is too slow to meet these targets, according to David McKenzie of Scotland’s Micro-renewables Working Group.
“We have a massive challenge on our hands, but nobody seems to know how to make it happen,” Mr McKenzie told the conference. “Plumbers need to move from being product installers to trusted service providers and advisers – consumers have a menu of options, but most of the time they just give up and stick with what they have got.”
Source: hpnmag.com
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