The rights to build and run renewables projects on Scottish land and seabed owned by Queen Elizabeth have been transferred to the devolved Scottish government.
This means that the Scottish Nationalist Party administration — which seeks independence from the UK and wants Scotland to become 100% renewable by 2020 — will now be able to lease thousands of hectares of rural Crown Estate land to wind farms, and more than half of the seabed off Scotland (up to 22.2km
