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Shetland Islands Council

… using Council heating systems as base market  Capacity to influence community to action by including carbon metrics in all tenders and grants/loans  Capacity to use Council land for local food growing to support community resilience  Ability to use small scale renewables in rural areas on public buildings will encourage other property owners in the area to make the change and help…

… problems con- tinue  Many critical buildings/assets at risk of flood, inundation and damage eg beside sea, at near sea level just now  Increased fuel oil energy costs following national legislation against use of fossil fuel will lead to oil industry contraction of supply and increasing costs to run within Council estate#  Failure to maximise use of small scale renewables to self- generate…

… practice developed in other places  Growing availability of renewable technology solutions eg. Electric cars  Revisit fixed link debate and possible end up with a mixed solution of some tunnels and fewer ferries to support area resilience  Use Council owned land to build turbines and use sell the output to the advantage of the es- tate eg private wires  Development of hydrogen economy…

… circumstances and needs in the past. For example the Energy Recovery Plant/Shetland Heat Energy and Power, Lerwick District Heating Scheme delivers significant affordable, low emissions heating to many homes and public buildings in Lerwick. Given the abundance of renewable energy sources surrounding Shetland, it should be more than possible to generate other solutions that deliver affordable low carbon…

… inevitable that achievement in the first scope, the Council estate and services, will be heavily determined by progress on the wider front, e.g. development of locally available and affordable alternative fuel sources, distribution infrastructure and commercial availability of new propulsion and heating technologies. Therefore, this overall programme is being designed to consider and address both…