Producing more than half of the UK electricity from wind but Scots will just have to go ‘tribal’ to pay their bills
with their bills is on the rise in Scotland according to Consumer Scotland.
BBC Reporting Scotland in their regular wee BBC Breakfast inserts go on to suggest, via two brothers, a ‘tribal’ strategy, as they put it themselves, where they, their families and others live in the one house to keep energy bills down.
So, it’s just up to us to cope with high energy bills is it?
Are you sure we couldn’t do something else like political independence and the powers to tax the energy companies?
Does Scotland produce enough energy to meaningfully generate enough tax revenue to then subsidise consumer costs?
Gee, I wonder?
There is this which BBC Scotland seem to keep missing from their reports:
‘Wind energy across Great Britain hit a new record on Wednesday, producing enough electricity for more than 23 million homes’ but between 57% and 72% of that is generated in Scotland alone for only 8% of the population
From STV News 27 March 2026:
Wind power hits new record as gas squeezed to tiny share of generation. Wind energy across Great Britain hit a new record on Wednesday, producing enough electricity for more than 23 million homes across the country.
Solar and wind also combined to squeeze more expensive gas-fired generation to just 2.3% of the power mix, figures from the National Energy System Operator (Neso) show. The record comes as the Government announced a £64 million grant to back the development of Port Talbot, in Wales, as the first port in the Celtic Sea to support floating offshore wind which can harness even more renewable power.
The Neso figures show that between 1.30pm and 2pm on Wednesday, wind generation hit 23,880 megawatts (MW) of electricity, beating the previous record of 23,825MW set on December 5 2025. Slightly earlier at midday wind and solar power combined to produce 34 gigawatts (GW) of power, squeezing gas generation to just over a gigawatt, or 1,358MW – the lowest since April 2024.
The figures for Scotland on 25 March 2026 are not yet available but a week ago, they accounted for between 57% and 72% of the UK figure with only 8% of the population and 8% of the demand.
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