UK Government policy

The UK government has been set a target by the EC Renewable Energy Directive of obtaining 15% of energy consumption (heat and power combined) from renewable energy by 2020 and potentially 30 – 45% by 2030.

The government has identified that 90% of this will come from eight technologies, two of which are biomass heat and biomass power.

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Scottish Government policy

The Scottish government have set themselves the following targets:

100% of electricity consumption from renewable energy by 2020
11% of heat consumption from renewable energy by 2020

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