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Renewable energy can be grown to exceed our needs

YOUR report that Mackay Consultants claim the Scottish Government's target of generating 100% of Scotland's electricity from renewable sources by 2020 is unrealistic and unachievable.

This is simply not the case (“Experts warn 100% green energy plan is unrealistic”, The Herald, June 10).

A recent report from one of the world’s leading energy consultants, GL Garrad Hassan, shows that Scotland’s renewable electricity generation can grow to comfortably exceed our electricity needs, and that the Scottish Government’s target of 100% renewables by 2020 is completely and relatively easily achievable.