Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Builders to generate energy on site

IC Dumfries
July 10, 2006

Major building developments will have to generate at least a tenth of their energy needs from on-site green sources under radical proposed new planning rules.

Ministers want housing and commercial developers across Scotland to use "micro-renewables" such as solar power, wind turbines and bio-fuels to help provide electricity.

The proposal is contained in the Executive's draft Planning Policy on Renewable Energy and has been billed as the first plan of its kind in the UK.

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