{"id":2908,"date":"2010-09-30T12:48:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T16:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=2908"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:52:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:52:20","slug":"scotland-sets-itself-ambitious-renewable-energy-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/scotland-sets-itself-ambitious-renewable-energy-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland Sets Itself Ambitious Renewable Energy Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Scotland_RenewableEnergy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Scotland_RenewableEnergy.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Windmill\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2910\" \/><\/a>The Scottish first minister said his country wants to be completely powered with renewable energy by 2025.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Alex Salmond was speaking ahead of a renewable energy conference. He said he would like his country to become a net exporter of clean energy as the country has \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unrivalled green energy resources\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<br \/>\n<!--adsense#300--><\/p>\n<p>Wind, wave and tidal power will be promoted with current plans for these type of renewable energy. Offshore wind farms in particular will play an important role in achieving this goal.<\/p>\n<p>However, the country would still produce dirty energy based on coal and nuclear power to export to the rest of the UK. That makes the actual production of energy 63% renewable. Currently the country has a 3 GW renewable energy capacity but it has the potential to increase that figure to 63 GW.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nSources: <a href=\"http:\/\/care2.com\">Care2<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rapidonline.com\">Rapid<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish first minister said his country wants to be completely powered with renewable energy by 2025. Related Posts:No Related Posts Found! Go find some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,45,411,19],"tags":[534,1713,243,1749,118],"class_list":["post-2908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-energy","category-renewable-energy","category-tidal-power","category-wind-energy","tag-offshore","tag-renewable-energy","tag-scotland","tag-tidal-power","tag-wind-power"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9502,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions\/9502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}