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Section 3: Introduction
Renewable Heat is simply heat (rather than electricity) produced from renewable sources such as biomass, ground source heat pumps, air source heat pumps, water source heat pumps, solar heating, wind to heat, geothermal, heat from waste biomass, anaerobic digestion and landfill gas.
Background
The FREDS Renewable Heat Group was established by the Scottish Government in 2006 to help inform the content of a Renewable Heat Strategy for Scotland. Membership was drawn from a wide range of public and private sector organisations with a range of experience in renewable heat. Annex A contains the full membership.
Remit
- To identify and develop recommendations for the key components of a Scottish renewable heat strategy, including:
- clarification of size of baseline market;
- review of the potential of the various technologies within the Scottish Government's renewables energy policy and the barriers to growth;
- consideration of the merits of existing and proposed mechanisms for supporting renewable heat, including delivery agencies;
- development of targets for the production of renewable heat up to 2020, with monitoring proposals.
- To take into account parallel strategic work at a Scottish and UK level, as well as best practice in Europe and elsewhere.
- The Group also highlighted several related issues including fuel poverty, waste heat, district heating, and heat mapping.
Whilst the Group recognises that energy efficiency is a key part of an overall energy strategy, it is not included in the remit of this report. The Group does however recognise that renewable heat and energy efficiency are closely linked and recommends closer integration of these policy areas.
Structure
The main sections are:
- Recommendations
- Strategic Policy Context
- Market Size
- Technologies
- Indicative Heat Mapping
- Targets and Mechanisms
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