Independent assessment of the impacts of wholesale electricity market reform for Scotland report: EIR release

Information requested

• ‘On 3rd May 2024, Gillian Martin wrote to Justin Tomlinson MP, Minister of State for Energy, to share the Scottish Government’s response to the second Review of Electricity Market Arrangements consultation. 

An annex to that letter includes the following remark:

“The Scottish Government has commissioned an independent assessment of the impacts of wholesale electricity market reform for Scotland. This study focuses on locational marginal pricing (LMP). We would be pleased to discuss the findings of this report with your officials, in due course.” 

Please provide the above mentioned report. Please also provide all internal Scottish Government correspondence and documents which discuss the contents of the report, including minutes of meetings at which the report was discussed.'

Response

As the information you have requested is ‘environmental information’ for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs), we are required to deal with your request under those Regulations. We are applying the exception at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA. 

This exception is subject to the ‘public interest test’. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exception. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exception, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes. This is essentially a technical point and has no material effect on the outcome of your request.

I have included copies of the information you have requested below in Annex B.

On reviewing materials within scope of your request some exceptions have been applied in line with the EIRs.

You can find information on the exceptions that have been applied to information below in Annex A.

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FOI - 202400417840 - Information released - Annex A and B

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