Aims and Objectives

SEGEC is a new, long-term strategic initiative, which has been introduced to help Scotland better exploit the substantial opportunities offered by the green energy sector.

SEGEC’s strategic aims support the Economic Strategy for Scotland, while contributing to Scottish and European Energy and Climate Change Policy. Scotland is committed to meeting the 2020 energy targets and is determined to work with partners across Europe to achieve this.

 

SEGEC has been charged with achieving the aims of:

  • promoting the internationalisation of sustainable energy research;
  • fostering good practice in the development and deployment of green energy; and
  • supporting sustainable economic growth and the EU's sustainable energy targets.

These aims make explicit the strategic focus for SEGEC, as well as its concerns to encourage appropriate activity, which fits with both the wider policy agenda of decreasing reliance on fossil fuels and on ensuring Scotland remains well placed to benefit from.

Based on these ambitious aims, SEGEC has been set a number of short to medium term objectives which are to:

  • form an alliance of Atlantic partners to raise the importance of marine and tidal energy research and development;
  • promote offshore wind development and deployment;
  • promoting long distance supergrid development and smart distribution grids;
  • develop partnerships on key policy priorities such as carbon capture and storage, and renewable heat; and
  • lead work on tackling policy and administrative barriers to deployment of renewable energies.

As it is intended that SEGEC will be a long-term initiative, its aims and objectives will be subject to periodic review to ensure that it remains focused on the key issues influencing the development and uptake of green energy.