SUMMARY OF NON-PRIVATE SECTOR LOW CARBON INVESTMENTS IN
SCOTLAND
Scheme
WATERS
fund
–
Scottish
Marine
Projects
(£13m total)
To
RWE npower
Project
Amount
4MW Siadar project - £6m
wave station
OpenHydro
£1.92m
Dublin
AWS
Energy
£1.39m
Loch Ness
and
Cromarty
Firth
Sanda
Sound, S.
Kintyre
Edinburgh
connecting
marine
energy devices
Ocean wave-energy
converter tests
1
Ocean
Energy
Flow Evopod - tidal turbine
£0.6m
Oyster 2 - wave £3.15m
power
WATES
8
projects
and £13m
scheme 2
associated
infrastructure
developments (e.g.
Marwick Head Wave
Plant, £3.2m)3
Scottish
Grants
to CARES
Technical
Gov.4
community
support
organisiations
grants up
through
to
£10k,
Community
capital
Energy Scotland
grants up
to £150k.
Scottish
Scottish
and Biogas plant
£2.2m
Gov. - Zero Southern
Waste
Energy
plc
Scotland’s
(SSE)
Organics
Capital
Grants
programme5
Aquamarine
Power
European
Marine Energy
Centre (EMEC)
- wave and tidal
1
Location
W. Isles
http://bnef.com/GrantsAwarded/1639
2http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Business-Industry/Energy/Energy-
sources/19185/20805/WTSupportScheme/WTSupportSchemeIntro
3http://bnef.com/GrantsAwarded/1547
4http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Business-Industry/Energy/Energysources/19185/Communities/CRES
5 http://bnef.com/GrantsAwarded/1596
Orkney
Barkip,
North
Ayrshire
Scottish
Gov.
National
Food
Processing,
Marketing
and
Cooperation
Scheme6,7
SG,
Forestry
Commission
Scotland
and
the
European
Regional
Developme
nt Fund8
SFC9
£2m
Energen Biogas
Biogas Plant
Scottish
Biomass
Scheme
£3.3m
scheme,
grants
of
up
to
£100,000
prioritised
for smallmedium
enterprises
multi-institutional
Some
of
collaborations called £132m
research pools
invested
feeds into
low-C
agenda.
Aberdeen Centre for £1.2m
Aberdeen
Environmental
Sustainability
Scottish Centre for £1.4m
Edinburgh
Carbon
Storage
Research
Integrated
Energy £750k
Glasgow
Initiative (Co-Funded
with EPSRC
Carbon Capture from £418k
Edinburgh
Power Plant and
Atmosphere
(CoFunded with EPSRC)
Heat
RDD&D
strategic
research
initiatives
6http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2008/08/05105633
7http://bnef.com/GrantsAwarded/1331
8http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Business-Industry/Energy/Energy-
sources/19185/20805/BioSupport/BioSupportHome
9RDDD Mapping Document Draft
Cumberna
uld
SE's
The
Proof
of
Concept
Programme
(PoC),
(£79m
total)10
(£1.3m
University
Aberdeen
Glasgow
Caledonian
low-C)11
of Carbon Tolerant Low £292,285
Temperature
Fuel
Cell
Energy
Generation
and
Transport
Applications
Particulate
Solids £199,65
Mass Flow Rate
Measurement
by
Thermal Methods
Aberdeen
£198,066
Edinburgh
£267,454
Edinburgh
£190,777
Glasgow
£162,000
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Napier
SE:
SMART:
SCOTLAND
Low
Cost
Manufacture
of
Anodes for Solid
Oxide Fuel Cells
Renewable Energy
from
Novel
Environmental Waste
University
of Improved Electrical
Strathclyde
Generation Systems
for
Renewable
Energy
&
Microgeneration
User-Configurable
and
Proactive
Condition Monitoring
Several grants
early stage R&D
Glasgow
£800k
to
low-C
projects
12
Grants
Renewable
£1.5m
administered by Hydrogen & Fuel Cell total,
the Renewables Support Scheme
£250,000
&
Consents
per project,
Policy Unit
(£50,000
for
seed
fund
projects)
UK Gov - *AWS
Ocean wave energy device
£350,000
Inverness
15
Technology Energy
Scottish
Gov.13
10http://www.scottish-enterprise.com/proofofconcept
11RDDD
Mapping Document Draft
RDDD Mapping Document Draft
13http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Business-Industry/Energy/Energysources/19185/20805/HydrogenSupport/HydrogenAppForm
15http://www.awsocean.com/media/File/TSB%20funding%20release%20FINAL%2023%20July.pdf
12
Strategy
Board14
(£7m total,
to
nine
marine
energy
companies.
Scottish* in
detail)
Scottish and
Southern
Energy,
Scottish
Enterprise,
Norwegian
investors,
Sigma
Capital
Group17
UK
Government
Marine
Developme
nt
Grants
(total
£
18
22.5m)
Saltire Prize
DECC
Turbine
Project
Grant
(£10m
total)21
*Aquamarine
Power16
Oyster - wave energy
£450,000
Edinburgh
Aquamarine
Power
Oyster - wave energy
£6m
Edinburgh
Aquamarine
Power
wave £5.1m
Edinburgh
£4.8m
Edinburgh
Pelamis Wave Wave energy
£10m
20
Power
Artemis
Transferring existing £1m
Intelligent
technology
Power22
(automotive) to wind
power
Edinburgh
Pelamis
Power19
Oyster
–
energy
Wave Wave power
Loanhead
Midlothian
14http://bnef.com/GrantsAwarded/1653
16http://www.aquamarinepower.com/news-and-events/news/latest-news/view/151/research-to-create-
new-wave-of-clean-energy-technology/
17http://www.aquamarinepower.com/news-and-events/news/latest-news/view/146/further-6m-fundingfor-aquamarine-power/
18http://bnef.com/GrantsAwarded/1463
19http://www.pelamiswave.com/news?archive=1&mm=2&yy=2010
20http://www.pelamiswave.com/news?archive=1&mm=8&yy=2010
21http://bnef.com/GrantsAwarded/1273
22http://www.artemisip.com/index.htm
UK Carbon Pelamis Wave Wave power
£250k
Edinburgh
23
Trust
Power
Marine
Technology
Grant
(£400k
total)
UK
Scottish Power
carbon capture and undisclosed
government'
storage projects
s
CCS
Project
Grant24
European
Commission
Wind
&
CCS
Projects
Grant (total
EUR
1.6bn)25
Aberdeen
offshore
wind
farm
testing
centre
Npower
Scottish Power
Npower
Powerfuel
Big Lottery E.ON UK
Fund
Biomass
Plant
Grant26
1.
increasing capacity
EUR 40m
post-combustion
EUR 180m
post-combustion
post-combustion
IGCC project - CCS
focused start-up
Biomass Plant
£18m
Aberdeen
Kingsnorth
Longannet
Tilbury
Hatfield
Steven's
Croft,
Lockerbie
Literature
Building a low-carbon economy – the UK’s innovation challenge, Committee on
Climate Change (2010) http://www.theccc.org.uk/reports/low-carbon-innovation
Environmental Progress Report, Goldman Sachs (2009)
http://www2.goldmansachs.com/services/advising/environmental-markets/envmarkets-landing-page/env-progress-landing-page.html
Scotland's path to a low-carbon economy, Committee on Climate Change (2010)
http://www.theccc.org.uk/reports/scottish-report
Unlocking investment to deliver Britain’s low carbon future, Green Investment
Bank Commission (2010)
http://www.climatechangecapital.com/media/108890/unlocking%20investment%20to
%20deliver%20britain%27s%20low%20carbon%20future%20-
23http://bnef.com/GrantsAwarded/1268
24
http://bnef.com/GrantsAwarded/1522
25http://bnef.com/GrantsAwarded/1174
26http://bnef.com/GrantsAwarded/295
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