@book{0ffe71b4cdfe4384abc3e6c4db19115c,
title = "Carbon-Free, Poverty Free: Heating Options for Rural Scotland",
abstract = "The need for Scotland to decarbonise its energy network – across electricity, heat and transport – is becoming increasingly urgent in the face of the looming “climate emergency”. The Committee on Climate Change has recommended that Scotland sets a target for achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045.In recent years Scotland has made substantial progress towards the complete decarbonisation of its electricity supply with over 50% of electricity generated in Scotland now produced from renewable sources.However, electricity only makes up around 24% of total energy demand in Scotland. Heating is currently the largest draw on energy demand in Scotland – around 55% of all energy use – and less than 6% of non-electrical heating is derived from renewable sources – well below the EU average of 19.5%.This Common Weal policy paper was commissioned by Calor as a review of the evidence relating to a number of key questions and issues raised by the Scottish Government{\textquoteright}s policies and proposals for decarbonising heating and addressing fuel poverty in off-gas areas, with a particular focus on rural and island areas.",
keywords = "energy, heat, rural",
author = "Keith Baker and Ronald Mould and Craig Dalzell and Robin McAlpine and Jonathon Shafi",
year = "2019",
month = jun,
day = "17",
language = "English",
publisher = "Common Weal",
}