Questions and answers

Question reference: S3W-32371

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 12 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 25 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-16666 by Jim Mather on 22 October 2008, whether a consultation into possible changes to the accreditation standards for installers of microgeneration equipment has been undertaken and, if so, what the result was.

There has been no formal Scottish consultation into possible changes to the accreditation standards for installers of microgeneration equipment. The industry-led group proposing the changes represents the views of many Scottish installers and they have ensured their members are kept up to date with developments.

The Scottish Government recently received proposals from the group and we are currently considering these. We are committed to reach a solution that will satisfy microgeneration installers but not exclude Scottish consumers from forthcoming UK‘wide clean energy cash back schemes.

Question reference: S3W-32378

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 12 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 25 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many microgeneration technology installations have been supported financially in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area.

Domestic installations supported by Energy Saving Scotland home renewables grants (formerly part of Scottish Community and Householder Renewables Initiative) and home loans:

	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
Aberdeen City	6	16	2	4	6
Aberdeenshire	31	122	115	145	158
Angus	13	55	31	29	32
Argyll and Bute	15	52	45	61	57
Clackmannanshire	1	5	4	7	8
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	7	9	13	50	42
Dumfries and Galloway	24	68	65	58	54
Dundee City	2	5	5	3	6
East Ayrshire	10	15	19	15	16
East Dunbartonshire	0	6	9	12	4
East Lothian	5	9	20	21	22
East Renfrewshire	3	8	7	4	8
City of Edinburgh	13	32	28	28	38
Falkirk	2	11	4	3	8
Fife	17	78	67	51	50
Glasgow City	1	11	8	2	14
Highland	47	181	142	170	166
Inverclyde	0	4	3	4	4
Midlothian	4	8	9	7	9
Moray	24	23	22	45	36
North Ayrshire	4	30	28	22	16
North Lanarkshire	1	8	5	8	3
Orkney	17	31	52	31	47
Perth and Kinross	41	97	67	88	94
Renfrewshire	0	4	2	9	10
Scottish Borders	20	56	62	55	60
Shetland	25	36	55	38	31
South Ayrshire	2	18	43	20	23
South Lanarkshire	12	32	23	25	30
Stirling	12	35	21	33	34
West Dunbartonshire	1	2	3	5	1
West Lothian	4	12	20	21	16
Total	364	1,079	999	1,074	1,103

SME Installations Supported by Energy Saving Scotland SME Loans (formerly Loan Action Scotland)

	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
Aberdeen City		1			2
Aberdeenshire			2	1	1
Angus		1
Argyll and Bute
Clackmannanshire
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar				1
Dumfries and Galloway	1			2
Dundee City				1	1
East Ayrshire				1	1
East Dunbartonshire
East Lothian					1
East Renfrewshire				1
City of Edinburgh				1
Falkirk					1
Fife
Glasgow City
Highland	1		1	2	3
Inverclyde				1
Midlothian			1		1
Moray
North Ayrshire			1		1
North Lanarkshire			1
Orkney					1
Perth and Kinross			1		1
Renfrewshire				1
Scottish Borders				1	1
Shetland
South Ayrshire
South Lanarkshire			1	1	1
Stirling				2
West Dunbartonshire
West Lothian				1	1
Total	2	2	8	17	17

Community Installations Supported by Community and Renewable Energy Scheme (Formerly Part of Scottish Community and Householder Renewables Initiative) from 2003 to Present

Aberdeen City	9
Aberdeenshire	26
Angus	15
Argyll and Bute	41
Clackmannanshire	6
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	46
Dumfries and Galloway	26
Dundee City	12
East Ayrshire	4
East Dunbartonshire	1
East Lothian	7
East Renfrewshire	2
Edinburgh City	16
Falkirk	4
Fife	19
Glasgow City	20
Highland	122
Inverclyde	1
Midlothian	7
Moray	18
North Ayrshire	7
North Lanarkshire	6
Orkney	44
Perth and Kinross	14
Renfrewshire	3
Scottish Borders	15
Shetland	40
South Ayrshire	2
South Lanarkshire	9
Stirling	7
West Dunbartonshire	0
West Lothian	3
Total	552

The data on community installations is not held in the format requested i.e. broken down by year. It is likely to be cost prohibitive to obtain this.

Question reference: S3W-32377

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 12 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 25 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many and what percentage of non-domestic buildings are estimated to have microgeneration technologies installed.

The Scottish Government gathers data on the number of non-domestic installations supported by Energy Saving Scotland small business loans and the Community and Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES). These figures in total are as follows:

Number of Installations Supported

Programme
Small business loans	46
CARES	1,001

Outwith these schemes, information on non-domestic microgeneration installations is not held centrally.

Question reference: S3W-32379

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 12 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 25 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how much financial support was provided to microgeneration technology installations in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area.

Domestic installations supported by Energy Saving Scotland home renewables grants (formerly part of Scottish Community and Householder Renewables Initiative) and home loans:

	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
Aberdeen City	6,156	25,719	3,257	9,688	19,540
Aberdeenshire	72,683	289,846	321,773	438,468	447,243
Angus	34,316	119,695	60,236	88,026	88,358
Argyll and Bute	38,841	153,451	123,829	176,365	172,201
Clackmannanshire	2,802	8,975	13,441	15,479	20,236
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	20,335	29,411	42,520	169,371	128,885
Dumfries and Galloway	49,484	181,090	190,938	162,989	152,494
Dundee City	1,758	5,005	6,499	4,568	16,109
East Ayrshire	27,558	36,534	48,091	34,395	45,856
East Dunbartonshire	0	18,238	27,735	22,265	12,856
East Lothian	10,592	13,723	41,836	57,469	53,724
East Renfrewshire	2,698	13,026	14,659	10,661	25,420
City of Edinburgh	24,869	41,221	49,784	44,717	75,649
Falkirk	3,276	16,423	4,677	6,668	17,769
Fife	41,426	147,534	153,656	102,405	133,409
Glasgow City	1,102	27,471	23,481	3,162	42,799
Highland	120,443	461,043	358,246	438,225	440,295
Inverclyde	0	5,615	4,527	13,052	10,213
Midlothian	11,455	15,762	14,544	9,523	19,769
Moray	42,641	40,919	47,086	117,442	95,699
North Ayrshire	4,616	56,430	65,580	68,601	46,881
North Lanarkshire	3,222	11,160	11,204	20,587	9,570
Orkney	43,980	7,215	168,042	104,961	140,209
Perth and Kinross	85,589	209,903	153,553	227,652	258,466
Renfrewshire	0	8,757	3,270	25,500	30,684
Scottish Borders	55,501	135,861	165,466	158,901	197,100
Shetland	30,913	64,988	95,087	83,059	80,159
South Ayrshire	4,690	34,874	82,456	55,501	68,090
South Lanarkshire	34,028	76,466	64,095	73,846	88,850
Stirling	25,444	79,48	43,968	87,327	101,248
West Dunbartonshire	4,000	1,546	8,395	12,574	4,000
West Lothian	12,050	15,579	37,813	52,576	49,224
Total	816,483	2,432,980	2,449,761	2,896,040	3,093,020

SME Installations Supported by Energy Saving Scotland SME Loans (formerly Loan Action Scotland)

	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
Aberdeen City		8,735			109,752
Aberdeenshire			33,422	7,190	26,000
Angus		10,000
Argyll and Bute
Clackmannanshire
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar				7,910
Dumfries and Galloway	10,600			116,754
Dundee City				8,425	100,000
East Ayrshire				22,000	9,449
East Dunbartonshire
East Lothian					21,709
East Renfrewshire				22,375
City of Edinburgh				18,465
Falkirk					15,950
Fife
Glasgow City
Highland	8,495		50,000	17,463	128,191
Inverclyde				9,250
Midlothian			5,260		100,000
Moray
North Ayrshire			9,588		36,715
North Lanarkshire			49,560
Orkney					14,000
Perth and Kinross			25,903		7,351
Renfrewshire				7,240
Scottish Borders				17,625	46,702
Shetland
South Ayrshire
South Lanarkshire			49,031	56,925	6,500
Stirling				86,342
West Dunbartonshire
West Lothian				14,850	32,257
Total	19,095	18,735	222,764	412,814	654,576

Community Installations Supported by Community and Renewable Energy Scheme (formerly part of Scottish Community and Householder Renewables Initiative) from 2003 to Present

Aberdeen City	282,603
Aberdeenshire	939,054
Angus	313,634
Argyll and Bute	1,442,735
Clackmannanshire	51,165
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	1,722,117
Dumfries and Galloway	569,844
Dundee City	457,443
East Ayrshire	78,873
East Dunbartonshire	7,305
East Lothian	136,753
East Renfrewshire	42,536
Edinburgh City	512,482
Falkirk	65,879
Fife	391,804
Glasgow City	583,842
Highland	2,842,389
Inverclyde	37,500
Midlothian	487,353
Moray	393,733
North Ayrshire	117,923
North Lanarkshire	387,604
Orkney	1,161,546
Perth and Kinross	384,580
Renfrewshire	28,511
Scottish Borders	320,778
Shetland	1,172,958
South Ayrshire	43,779
South Lanarkshire	269,944
Stirling	242,744
West Dunbartonshire	0
West Lothian	153,171
Total	15,642,593

The data on community installations is not held in the format requested i.e. broken down by year. It is likely to be cost prohibitive to obtain this.

Question reference: S3W-32375

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 12 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 24 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how much energy is produced by microgeneration technologies installed in buildings occupied by it and its agencies, also expressed as a percentage of the overall energy usage across the estate.

Question reference: S3W-32373

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 12 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 24 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many and what percentage of buildings occupied by it and its agencies have microgeneration technologies installed.

Panels for solar water heating are currently installed at Tweedbank in Galashiels. With the estate comprising 68 buildings, where the Scottish Government are the sole or major occupier, this represents 1.5%. As part of a current refurbishment project at Saughton House in Edinburgh due to be completed in June 2010, solar thermal panels are being installed to meet some of the hot water needs of the building. Photovoltaic panels are also being included at the new Fish Veterinary and Aquaria facility currently under construction in Aberdeen. This building is due to be completed by August 2010. The addition of microgeneration at these two sites will increase this percentage to 4.4%. Previous studies in respect of specific Scottish Government buildings have been ruled out.

The Scottish Government also continues to support renewable technologies by procuring all of the electricity required to run its buildings from renewable sources.

Information relating to microgeneration technologies installed at buildings occupied by agencies is not held centrally.

Question reference: S3W-32374

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 12 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 24 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of the energy used in buildings occupied by it and its agencies that have microgeneration technologies installed is derived from such technologies.

Information relating to energy produced by microgeneration technologies currently installed in buildings occupied by the core Scottish Government is not currently recorded separately. Panels for solar water heating are installed at Tweedbank in Galashiels and their energy output will be recorded through a Building Management System (BMS) to be installed later this year. As part of a current refurbishment project at Saughton House in Edinburgh, solar panels are being installed to meet some of the hot water needs of the building. This project is due to be completed in June 2010. At the new Fish Veterinary and Aquaria facility currently under construction in Aberdeen, photovoltaic panels will be fitted to meet some of the electricity supply needs of the building. This building is due for completion in August 2010. Energy produced at both of these buildings by microgeneration will in future be monitored through a BMS. The Scottish Government also continues to support renewable technologies by procuring all of the electricity required to run its buildings from renewable sources.

Information relating to energy used in buildings occupied by agencies is not held centrally.

Question reference: S3W-32382

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 12 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 23 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what the total value was of the approved Energy Saving Scotland home loan applications in each month since March 2009.

Question reference: S3W-32380

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 12 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 23 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many Energy Saving Scotland home loan applications have been received in each month since March 2009.

The following table illustrates the number of loans applied for and approved, plus the value of these, under the Energy Saving Scotland home loans scheme, broken down by month since the launch of the scheme on 8 October 2009.

Month	Number of Loan Applications	Number of Loans Approved	Value of Loans Approved (£)
October 2009	15	1	10,000
November 2009	93	21	124,105.16
December 2009	74	56	234,133.32
January 2010	91	54	256,692.65
February 2010	138	57	331,410.49
Total	411	189	956,341.62

Question reference: S3W-32372

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 12 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 20 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-16666 by Jim Mather on 22 October 2008, what assessment it has made of the impact of any changes introduced since 1 January 2009 to the accreditation standards for installers of microgeneration equipment on the (a) cost of accreditation, (b) numbers of installers achieving accreditation and (c) number of rejections.

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