Renewables Obligation (Scotland) - energy intensive industries: consultation

Responding to this Consultation

23. We are inviting responses to this consultation by 23 September 2022

24. Please respond to this consultation online using the Scottish Government's consultation platform, Citizen Space link below:

Consultation: Devolved aspects of the review of the Scheme that provides relief to energy-intensive industries for a proportion of the costs of funding renewable energy generation, that includes the Renewables Obligation (Scotland)

You can view/respond and also save and return to your responses while the consultation is open.

Please ensure that consultation responses are submitted before the closing date of 23 September 2022

25. If you are unable to respond online, please complete the Respondent Information Form (see "Handling your Response" below) to:

Industrial Decarbonisation Team

4^th Floor

5 Atlantic Quay

150 Broomielaw

GLASGOW

G2 8LU

Handling your response

26. If you respond using Citizen Space (http://consult.scotland.gov.uk/), you will be directed to the Respondent Information Form. Please indicate how you wish your response to be handled and, in particular, whether you are happy for your response to published.

27. If you are unable to respond via Citizen Space, please complete and return the Respondent Information Form included in this document. If you ask for your response not to be published, we will regard it as confidential, and we will treat it accordingly.

28. All respondents should be aware that the Scottish Government is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and would therefore have to consider any request made to it under the Act for information relating to- responses made to this consultation exercise.

Next steps in the process

29. Where respondents have given permission for their response to be made public, and after we have checked that they contain no potentially defamatory material.

30. responses will be made available to the public at http://consult.scotland.gov.uk. If you use Citizen Space to respond, you will receive a copy of your response via email.

31. Following the closing date, all responses will be analysed and considered along with any other available evidence to help us. Responses will be published where we have been given permission to do so.

32. An analysis of the responses will be shared with BEIS as this is a parallel consultation that encompasses the questions on the wider review and how the scheme will operate. They will do the same with the Scottish Government.

Approval

33. Following the closing date, all responses will be analysed and considered along with any other available evidence to help us reach a final position. Subject to stakeholders' views, and the approval of the Scottish Parliament, if we decide to proceed with the proposals our aim would be to bring them into effect in Scotland at the same time as the rest of the UK. We will confirm the intended timetable in our response to this consultation.

Comments and complaints

34. If you have any comments about how this consultation exercise has been conducted, please send them to:

Industrial Decarbonisation Team

4^th Floor

5 Atlantic Quay

150 Broomielaw

GLASGOW

G2 8LU

Email: ROS@gov.scot

Scottish Government consultation process

35. Consultation is an essential part of the policy-making process. It gives us the opportunity to consider your opinion and expertise on a proposed area of work.

36. You can find all our consultations online: http://consult.scotland.gov.uk. Each consultation details the issues under consideration, as well as a way for you to give us your views, either online, by email or by post.

37. Consultations may involve seeking views in a number of different ways, such as public meetings, focus groups, or other online methods such as Dialogue (https://www.ideas.gov.scot)

38. Responses will be analysed and used as part of the decision making process, along with a range of other available information and evidence. We will publish a report of this analysis for every consultation. Depending on the nature of the consultation exercise the responses received may:

• indicate the need for policy development or review
• inform the development of a particular policy
• help decisions to be made between alternative policy proposals
• be used to finalise legislation before it is implemented

39. While details of particular circumstances described in a response to a consultation exercise may usefully inform the policy process, consultation exercises cannot address individual concerns and comments, which should be directed to the relevant public body.