THE UK Government is being urged to speed up plans to encourage investment in renewable energy projects, with fears net -zero goals will be put at risk due to delays in policy making.
Major hydropower projects are in the pipeline, such as proposals that would enable lochs in the Highlands to be used as giant storage batteries and allow clean energy to be supplied to the grid at times of higher consumption.
This includes the first large-scale pumped hydro storage scheme to be developed in the UK for more than 30 years at Coire Glas, which would more than double Britain’s existing electricity storage capacity.
