Sector: Energy Tools and techniques: Energy and carbon management Scottish Power is focusing on renewable as part of their strategy to grow their business sustainably whilst protecting the natural environment. Processes: Scottish Power produces energy through a diverse generation portfolio of coal, gas, hydro, wind power, geothermal and pumped storage. They are the UK’s largest developer of wind energy, pursuing projects on various land types, including hillsides, moorland, forests, harbours and under-used industrial land. Scottish Power are committed to responsible windfarm development, creating stakeholder benefits such as inward investment, community trust funds and habitat management initiatives. It is planned to add 1,000 MW of new renewable energy to their UK portfolio by 2010. At present they own and operate 12 windfarms in the UK and Ireland. Construction of a new 134 MW windfarm on the site of a former opencast coal mine has just begun. Plans for the £130m project include extensive land regeneration works and a habitat management scheme. An environmental artist has been commissioned to develop attractive windfarms with interesting formations, such as circles to mimic ancient standing stones, colours and lighting. Scottish Power are cleaning up coal-fired plants and investing in clean, efficient gas generation. They are also piloting plans to co-fire sustainable biomass fuels, such as sawdust, at coal-fired stations. In addition, they are developing biodiversity action plans for all key sites and sponsor countryside rangers at several generation sites to protect wildlife, listed buildings and monuments. Impact: More than 100 commercial and industrial customers, covering some 28,000 sites across the UK have signed up for their green energy product for businesses, Green Source Scottish Power’s wind energy development programme will save an estimated one million tonnes of CO2 emissions in the UK by 2010 Scottish Power’s habitat management scheme at its windfarm in Kintyre has provided new feeding grounds for a pair of nesting Golden Eagles, a safe distance away from the wind turbines. This active habitat management at its sites is helping many other bird species as well At the end of March 2003, Scottish Power’s Green Energy Trust had awarded £173, 390 to 40 community environmental projects Annually, recycling power station ash into construction products saves the quarrying of more than 650,000 tonnes of virgin aggregates and more than half a million tonnes of CO2 www.scottishpower.co.uk