1. Decision on taking business in private

The Committee will decide whether to take items 5 and 6 in private.

2. Scotland’s electricity infrastructure: inhibitor or enabler of our energy ambitions?

The Committee will take evidence from—

• Stuart Haszeldine OBE
  Professor of Carbon Capture and Storage
  University of Edinburgh
• Clare Lavelle
  Director, Energy and Advisory Leader North
  Arup
• Tom Quinn
  Head of Analysis and Insights
  Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult
• Emily Rice
  Scotland Policy Analyst
  Solar Energy UK

and then from -

• Mark Hull
  Chief Technical Officer
  Community Energy Scotland
• Scott Mathieson
  Network Planning and Regulation Director
  ScottishPower Energy Networks
• Aileen McLeod
  Director of Business Planning and Commercial
  SSEN Transmission
• Morag Watson
  Director of Policy
  Scottish Renewables

3. UK subordinate legislation

The Committee will consider a proposal by the Scottish Government to consent to the UK Government legislating using the powers under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 in relation to the following UK statutory instrument proposals—

The REACH (Amendment) Regulations 2023

4. Subordinate legislation

The Committee will consider the following negative instrument—

Water and Sewerage Services to Dwellings (Collection of Unmetered Charges by Local Authority) (Scotland) Order 2023 (SSI 2023/052)

5. Scotland’s electricity infrastructure: inhibitor or enabler of our energy ambitions?

The Committee will consider the evidence it heard earlier under agenda item 2.

6. Appointments to the Board of Environmental Standards Scotland

The Committee will consider correspondence from the Scottish Government.