Found: The Nuclear Energy (Financing) Act 2022 (“the Act”) makes provision for the implementation of a RAB

Found: to designate NNB Generation Company (now renamed Sizewell C Limited) under powers included in the Nuclear

Found: It is worth bearing in mind that I took the decision to ensure that a Chinese state-owned nuclear energy

Found: nuclear liability regime and is party to the Paris Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear

Found: across the UK, strengthening global supply chains across CCUS, electricity networks, hydrogen, nuclear

Found: industries (carbon capture utilisation and storage, hydrogen, offshore wind, electricity networks and nuclear

Found: commissioning completed Environmental impact assessment Conclusion Activities in the field of nuclear

Found: Allocation Round 4 Report on the Role of Ancillary Services to Encourage Low Carbon Operability 70 The Nuclear

Found: Presentation: Speaker – Una Baker, Division of Radioactive Waste Management and Decommissioning (RWMD) OECD Nuclear

Found: The government is committed to reaching carbon neutrality by 2050 (2045 in Scotland)and nuclear energy

Found: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said:  Safeguarding the future of our nuclear deterrent and nuclear energy

Found: supply of electricityx x Oil and gas (except petroleum licenses within devolved onshore areas)x x Nuclear

Found: As set out through passage of the Nuclear Energy (Financing Act) 2022, and in the Alternative Routes

Found: Scotland’s approach towards energy transition such as Germany’s simultaneous phase -out of coal and nuclear

Found: forms of energy at its disposal and yet is willing to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a new nuclear

Question

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the importation to Scotland of nuclear energy generated elsewhere in the UK.

Answered by Martin, Gillian - Minister for Energy and the Environment

Security of electricity supply is a reserved matter and is delivered by the National Energy System Operator (ESO) across the whole of Great Britain under regulation from Ofgem.

We recognise the contribution that nuclear generation makes to the current energy mix in Scotland, including electricity generated from nuclear power generated elsewhere in the UK. However, we will continue to increase electricity generation from renewable and other low carbon sources.

Our draft Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan sets out key ambitions for Scotland’s energy future including enhancing our energy security through the development of renewable and low carbon energy storage.