“Taking
account
of
the
levels
of
planned
investment
over
the
next
decade,
I
believe
it
is
now
time
to
aim
higher,”
Salmond
says.
Salmond,
who
leads
a
minority
government
as
head
of
the
Scottish
National
Party,
has
increasingly
put
renewables
at
the
heart
of
his
strategy
for
economic
development.
Scotland’s
renewables
capacity
has
grown
rapidly
in
recent
years,
primarily
on
the
back
of
onshore
wind.
But
it
has
also
issued
licenses
for
10.6GW
of
offshore
wind,
and
hopes
to
have
1.2GW
of
wave
and
tidal
capacity
in
place
in
the
Pentland
Firth
and…
