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Shetland Islands Council

… 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…

…. These type of risk / SWOT exercises would be repeated during sectoral analysis as the Shetland Climate Change Plan is developed. Strengths / Weaknesses / Opportunities / Threats (SWOT) Analysis Shetland as a whole – (the Wide Scope) Strengths  Abundance of largely untapped renewable energy sources (wind, wave and tidal)  Measurable progress in energy efficiency in buildings, vehicles…

… enterprise businesses eager to develop renewable energy projects if viable opportunities identified  Public bodies eager to act on identifying climate change solutions  Elected Members appearing keen to incorporate climate issues in debate  Active engineering supply chain for renewable energy with capacity for development  Public opinion favouring action to introduce climate change measures…

… sourced energy  Energy companies slow at grid strengthening to ease this problem  Indecision on interconnector delays planning and development of next generation solutions  Dependence on remote external decision making processes.  No currently scalable sources of renewable energy other than wind generated electricity and green H2 derived from wind generated electricity  Lack of an up…

… security of supply  One potential large scale windfarm at consented stage  Abundant wind, wave and tidal resources for renewable electricity generation  Opportunities for development of small and medium scale projects relating to specific local- ised demand  Opportunities for mini local district heating networks at better energy cost to local property owners than current national network…