Speaking at the Scottish Green Energy Awards in Edinburgh, chief executive Niall Stuart said UK Department of Energy and Climate Change figures suggest it had been another “record-breaking year”, with capital spending having topped £900m in the first six months of 2012 alone.

“We learnt that we smashed the 2011 renewable electricity target, that the sector supports some 11,000 jobs, is making a massive dent in carbon emissions, and output has again hit record levels,” said Stuart.

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