SNP admits overstating green energy claims
The SNP has been accused of a “sleight of hand” after ministers wrote a brief note to a Holyrood committee in which they finally admitted overstating the country’s renewable energy resources.
For more than 15 years SNP politicians bragged that Scotland had 25 per cent of Europe’s offshore wind capacity, but in his submission to parliament Neil Gray, the energy minister, conceded Scotland has “about 10 per cent” of projected EU resources, though this figure too has been dismissed as “rubbish”.
After a furore a year ago about the veracity of the 25 per cent claim, documents released recently show that ministers and their advisers tried to hush up the true statistics.
The correspondence obtained under Freedom of Information rules by These Islands, a
