Scotland’s embrace of renewables shows it is not afraid of making its own way in the world

Jam, jute and journalism were the three Js that brought prosperity to the eastern Scottish port of Dundee, where my father was born.

The city, which in Victorian times boasted more millionaires than anywhere else in Britain, has lost its jam and jute. But it is still home to the DC Thomson publishing group, famous for the 74-year-old Beano comic, even if it has struggled to find new industries.

Gamesa, the Spanish wind developer and turbine maker, talked tantalisingly about constructing a blade plant in Dundee. But it has recently opened a research and development centre in Glasgow, and has switched its search for a manufacturing base to Leith, near Edinburgh.

Scotland…

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