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Prepare and implement a Council net zero plan and lead the preparation of a Shetland net zero strategy involving community planning partners and a range of energy-focused businesses and organisations.
Continue and, where possible, accelerate current energy efficiency, energy conversion, waste reduction and reuse initiatives, within the Council and across the community
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Support the identification and delivery of a robust, green Shetland electricity distribution grid, which reaches across all of Shetland, and enables further public, community and commercial 'greening'
Support the creation of community energy networks across Shetland that link in with a green and strengthened Shetland Electricity Grid and complement/enable local energy efficiency, recycling and carbon capture initiatives.
Support partners to plan and deliver energy reduction/transition in key commercial sectors, focusing on renewable energy generation, fishing, aquaculture, agriculture, transport, aviation and oil and gas in particular.
Campaign at all levels to ensure future developments recognise that energy affordability is already a key issue in Shetland, and ensure that progress on that issue is designed into all significant proposals and solutions.
Work with our partners to achieve a more sustainable, ecologically diverse and resilient natural environment as it is Shetland’s most valued and distinctive asset
Support the identification and delivery of a robust, green Shetland electricity distribution grid, which reaches across all of Shetland, and enables further public, community and commercial 'greening'
Discussions continue with SSEN’s Strategy and Distribution teams to understand what the transmission network and the distribution grid will be.
