Scottish Government documents mentioning “firm power” in the context of the electricity market: FOI release

Information requested

All Scottish Government documents mentioning “firm power” in the context of the electricity market, including correspondence between Ministers, Civil Servants, and Special Advisers, and with external parties, from 1st January 2022 - date.

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 exemption 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 exemption 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 exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, 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.

Response

I enclose a copy of most of the information you requested.

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are unable to provide some of the information you have requested because an exception(s) under regulation(s): Reg 10(4)(d) (material in course of completion, unfinished documents, or incomplete data); Reg 10(4)(e) (Internal Communications); Reg 10(5)(f) (Substantial prejudice to interests of person who provided the information) Reg 11(2) Personal data relating to third party of the EIRs applies to that information. The reasons why that exception(s) applies are explained in Annex A of this letter.

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FOI - 202300356459 - Annex A-F

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