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IT feels like 2025 has come full circle for us at Common Weal. January started with an announcement from the Scottish Government that it was “not possible” to bring Scottish renewable energy into public ownership – an announcement made after the publication of a poll showing that more than 80% of people in Scotland favoured them doing so. We responded with a briefing paper called “How to own Scottish energy”, which laid out the logic behind their announcement, why that logic was flawed, and how they could bring energy into public ownership.

In short, the Government’s stance is based on an extremely narrow reading of the Scotland Act which actively prohibits the Scottish Government or Scottish Ministers from owning electricity generating, storage, or transmission assets. Unde

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