TECHNOLOGIES
Scotland's renewable electricity capacity has shown steady growth over the last few years with the average annual capacity increasing over 660MW since the end of 2008. With the total now over 8.6GW, the sector is two and a half times larger than it was at the end Of 2008.
2. NON-RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
Part of Scotland's electricity is produced, by nuclear and by gas, since they are the base load, which will avoid relying on imports. Nowadays these are composed by a gas power station and two nuclear power station. Scottish government is clear that new nuclear power is not wanted or needed in Scotland. We will therefore have to rely on gas as the base load in Scotland for 2032
Due to renewable energies are not dispatchable, Scotland has a large-scale capacity storage system in the form of Hydro pump Storage. The Hydro Pump Scheme best known in Scotland is the Cruachan Hydro station, which has a reservoir to store energy in the form of potential energy and use it in times of small generation, or much electrical demand.
Electric-power transmission is the bulk movement of electrical energy from a generating site, such as a power plant, to an electrical substation. The interconnected lines which facilitate this movement are known as a transmission network. This is distinct from the local wiring between high-voltage substations and customers.
Each technology has different impacts, which both direct and indirect to environmental. In addition, they affect not only environmental aspects, also people in term of public health, and visual impacts, for example.
