Key facts

A quarter of all Europe’s wind energy crosses the Scottish landmass and its surrounding seas

Scotland’s Beatrice demonstrator project is the world’s first deepwater offshore wind farm

Money spent on the Beauly-Denny power line upgrade will help boost grid capacity to allow new renewable energy streams to be brought to market

Scotland leads the world in developing deep-water offshore wind farm deployment and construction

In 2009 12,145 gigawatts of electricity was exported. That’s almost a quarter of all Scotland’s produced electricity

Scotland’s energy production is attributed to; 24 percent coal, 26 percent oil and gas, 30 percent nuclear, 18 percent renewables and 2 percent pumped storage

The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney is the world’s first grid-connected, accredited test facility for wave and tidal devices and technologies

The Scottish energy sector supports a significant slice of the Scottish workforce

Glendoe at Fort Augustus is Scotland's latest conventional large-scale hydro power station

By 2050 the Scottish Government aims to reduce emissions by 80 percent

The GVA for the energy sector in Scotland is an impressive £18 billion. That's 18 percent of the Scottish GVA

The devices that power Scotland’s marine energy are; Limpet (shoreline wave), Pelamis (deep-water wave), the Open Hydro Tidal Turbine (tidal stream) and the Oyster (near shore wave)

The National Renewables Infrastructure Fund will support port and near-port manufacturing developments for offshore wind turbine and component manufacturing. Support is also available for test and demonstration activities

Scotland’s total practical offshore resource is estimated at 206 gigawatts

Scotland’s offshore wind industry looks set to deliver 28,000 jobs by 2020, contributing £7.1 billion of investment to the economy

It is predicted that the Scottish offshore wind output will grow to 10.5 gigawatts of electricity by 2020

the amount oil and gas companies in Scotland exported

The oil and gas industry supports a significant number of Scottish jobs

The oil and gas industry contributes £15.3 billion to the Scottish GVA

Scottish renewables accounted for 43 percent of total UK renewable output in 2009

The Scottish Government aims for Scotland to generate the equivalent of 100 percent of its own electricity demand from renewable resources by 2020

In 2009 renewables met 27 percent of Scotland's electricity use

The Saltire Prize is the world's largest innovation prize for technological advances in wave and tidal energy

(Source : Scottish Government)

A quarter of Europe’s tidal energy potential resources come from Scotland

By 2020 the wave and tidal energy electrical outputs for the Pentland Firth and Orkney waters are predicted to grow significantly

The Whitelees wind farm outside Glasgow is Europe's largest. The 140 turbines have the capacity to power 250,000 homes

It is predicted that by 2020 Scotland will generate 1.6 gigawatts of wave and tidal energy

Over half the UK’s onshore wind installed capacity comes from Scotland