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Section 1: Vision and Goals
VISION
The Forum for Renewable Energy Development Scotland's ( FREDS) vision is for a smarter, greener, warmer Scotland, building a commercially viable, diverse renewable heat industry to serve Scotland's heat needs. This vision is driven by both the need to tackle climate change and the potential for renewable heat to deliver sustainable economic growth. Renewable heat should be taken forward within the context of an overall heat strategy, contributing to a low carbon and energy efficient future.
GOALS
The group believes that the goals of a renewable heat strategy should be to:
- create diverse, stable, viable, sustainable heat markets and associated industry;
Renewable heat markets will include a wide range of energy sources and should have the principles of sustainability at their core. - develop a supportive policy, planning and regulatory framework;
Renewable heat policy encompasses a range of regulation, planning and legislation issues - a coordinated framework which will support sustainable options and discourage unsustainable choices through building standards, planning and regulation is critical. - set a target for the minimum percentage of heat to come from a mix of renewable technologies by 2020;
A target provides a benchmark against which progress can be measured and strengthens the case for renewable heat projects. - support the development of integrated local and regional community energy and utility cross-sectoral partnerships;
New partnerships must be forged across a range of sectors, including communities, local authorities, business and industry, to deliver effective renewable heat services in Scotland. - create a flexible, future-proofed delivery infrastructure (allowing for technological, financial and structural innovation).
A wider heat strategy should consider the options for combined heat and power ( CHP) and district heating in Scotland both in the use of existing waste heat, and how such schemes can be "future-proofed" so that renewable feedstock/
technologies can be utilised now or in the future.
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