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- Scottish Parliament written answers — Forestry: Forestry (21 March 2011)
Roseanna Cunningham: Yes, and the deals announced provide for Forestry Commission Scotland to become a joint venture partner in specific schemes should they chose to do so.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy (21 March 2011)
Roseanna Cunningham: Forestry Commission Scotland has secured leading edge community benefits of up to £5,000 per mw per annum for both wind and hydro developments. Communities, if they so wish, will be able to invest this payment in a share of the development. Also, they have the choice to add extra cash of their own to build a greater stake for the community. We estimate that this new programme could...
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy (21 March 2011)
Roseanna Cunningham: It will be for the appointed development companies for the different lots to engage with and agree the details with communities based upon the template agreed with Forestry Commission Scotland (FCS). FCS will additionally publish guidance for communities on the options available and Community Energy Scotland has been contracted by the Scottish Government to provide advice to communities on...
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy (21 March 2011)
Roseanna Cunningham: Representative communities who engage with the developers will receive the level of benefit and direct investment agreed on their behalf by Forestry Commission Scotland with the developer for each lot. As such it will be entirely up to the properly constituted body to decide how to make use of such income going forward.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy (21 March 2011)
Roseanna Cunningham: It will only be possible to say which communities will benefit once the developers have identified potential sites on the national forest estate. It is expected that this process will take up to eight month to complete.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy (21 March 2011)
Roseanna Cunningham: Due to the nature of the commercial process undergone, Forestry Commission Scotland could not specify requirements in this way however, each developer has stressed as part of their submission the importance they attach to local development and sustainability.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy (21 March 2011)
Roseanna Cunningham: Forestry Commission Scotland (FCS) has responsibility for the development of the national forest estate and it would not have been appropriate to directly involve communities in the commercial process. However, FCS did discuss with representative community bodies such as Community Energy Scotland, the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations, Scottish Community Woodlands and others during...
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy (21 March 2011)
Roseanna Cunningham: Depending on energy prices Forestry Commission Scotland (FCS) anticipate total renewable energy derived income of about £30 million per year by 2020, this is based on FCS’s forecast that an additional 500MW of installed capacity should be achievable. This extra income will be reinvested and will therefore be a huge saving to the taxpayer.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy (21 March 2011)
Roseanna Cunningham: The project Forestry Commission Scotland (FCS) undertook with Atkins Consultants had the main objective to build a GIS based analytical model to enable FCS to assess potential wind resource on the national forest estate. This objective was achieved and FCS routinely uses this to assess the potential of various forest blocks for different reasons. Atkins also ran the model as a part of the...
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy (21 March 2011)
Roseanna Cunningham: No banks were involved in drawing up the contracts but financial advice was provided by Grant Thornton’s Edinburgh office. However, prior to the tendering exercise FCS received advice on renewable energy developments from Fortis Bank.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy (21 March 2011)
Roseanna Cunningham: Forestry Commission Scotland estimate having 2GW of capacity installed (wind and hydro, excluding large-scale pumped storage) on the national forest estate by 2020.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy (21 March 2011)
Roseanna Cunningham: A series of options were modelled ranging from the current leasing arrangement through joint ventures to Forestry Commission Scotland (FCS) self development. Given FCS cannot borrow funding for such purposes the lease/joint version option was seen to be the best route to follow.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy (21 March 2011)
Roseanna Cunningham: It will only be possible to say which communities will benefit once the developers have identified potential sites on the national forest estate. It is expected that this process will take up to eight month to complete.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy (21 March 2011)
Roseanna Cunningham: The lease arrangements are structured to provide income to Forestry Commission Scotland (FCS) based on a share of the gross income generated by specific projects or a share of net income where FCS is joint venture partner or a combination of both. Therefore if income rises due to increasing energy costs FCS will benefit.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy (21 March 2011)
Roseanna Cunningham: Communities are welcome to flag up their interest during the eight month period if they want to pursue a renewables project under the National Forest Land Scheme (NFLS) prior to the list of sites being finalised by the developer. Once that list is established communities will have another opportunity to take forward sites via the NFLS scheme for non allocated sites. They will be able to...
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy (21 March 2011)
Roseanna Cunningham: This was considered to be a reasonable time for the development partner companies to assess the potential and draw up a portfolio of suitable sites.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy (21 March 2011)
Roseanna Cunningham: Forestry Commission Scotland split the geographical areas of the national forest estate into five lots. In four of the five lots there are two companies given exclusivity for the eight month period, one dealing with schemes under 5MW site potential and the other over 5MW. In the fifth lot both development segments are dealt with by the same company. It is not intended that exclusive options...
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy (21 March 2011)
Roseanna Cunningham: Every exercise like this is heavy on resource and time. Progressing these opportunities will contribute significantly to the delivery of the Government’s renewable energy targets and generate an additional revenue stream for Forestry Commission Scotland which will avoid the need for taxpayers to support the cost of delivery of social and environmental outputs from the national forest estate.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy (21 March 2011)
Roseanna Cunningham: Where Forestry Commission Scotland (FCS) was aware of community schemes that had started doing some preparatory work before the renewables contracts were announcement on 22 February, FCS built that knowledge into the arrangements by withholding the relevant forest blocks from the process. This has happened in the case of Dalavich, Strathyre and Mull.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy (21 March 2011)
Roseanna Cunningham: The results of the hydro-tendering process were announced in August and October 2010. The appointed development companies are still in the exclusivity phase and nothing has been decided as yet. Discussions are underway with some communities however.