Energy Supply Point Locations - Scotland
The location of existing and potential sources of energy, both electricity and heat, is provided as part of the Scotland Heat Map. Alongside data on heat demand, this is used to identify opportunities to reduce carbon emissions from heat in buildings, either by connecting supply and demand in a more efficient manner or by using lower carbon alternatives to existing supply. Data on each energy supply point includes, where available, capacity size category, main technology used (e.g. ‘wind’, ‘heat only boiler’), brief detail on how location is determined and planning status (e.g. ‘operational’, ‘in development’). The Scotland Heat Map is produced by the Scottish Government. Data on energy supply comes from a range of sources. Only records which can be shared publically are included in the dataset. It was last updated in 2016. There are differences in the information provided by each data source. As a result, some records are incomplete and what information is missing can be different for each data source. Location information also differs depending on the data source. In some cases xy coordinates are provided, in others they are obtained using a unique property reference number (UPRN) or the location of the centroid of the record’s postcode. More information can be found in the documentation available on the Scottish Government website: https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotland-heat-map-documents/.
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The data on energy supply covers both existing (‘actual’) and potential supply of heat and/or electricity. ‘Actual’ supply points include those that were under-construction when the data was gathered, as well as those that were operational. ‘Potential’ includes sites that were in various stages of the planning system, but not yet under construction, and sites that have the potential to supply heat, but where no plan to do so existed in the data sources used. This latter group includes sites where there is the potential to use waste heat, such as cooling towers, Whisky distilleries, waste water treatment works and mine water treatment works. Energy supply data in the Scotland Heat Map was last updated in 2016, although it was not possible to update every record then. Therefore changes since then will not be recorded, for example new energy supply coming online or the decommissioning of existing sites. Data comes from the following sources: - UK Government department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) – Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) - BEIS - Renewable Energy Statistics (RESTATS), - BEIS – Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Focus - BEIS – Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES) - The Energy Saving Trust (EST) - Scottish Local Authorities - The Coal Authority - Ofgem - Scottish Water (SW) - Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) - Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) - The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) Data from each of these sources was added to a standardised template containing the fields required for the heat map. Where a particular field was not included in a data source, this field was left blank. Values for primary technology, size category (grouped capacity in kW) and status (i.e. ‘actual’ or ‘potential’) were recoded to ensure consistency. Some of the data sources provided xy coordinates for a record. Others provided unique property reference numbers (UPRNs), which allowed xy coordinates to be obtained from Ordnance Survey’s Addressbase product. For records where neither was present, but a full postcode was, xy coordinates were assigned using the grid reference for the postcode centroid. These are available as part of the Scottish Postcode Directory (SPD) published by National Records of Scotland. Coordinates were found manually for a small number of records (for example thermal power stations listed in DUKES). The remainder could not be mapped. Many of the data sources used cover similar parts of the energy supply system, therefore the same supply point may appear in multiple sources. Where a unique property reference number is available for a record, de-duplication is first attempted using that. This is followed by de-duplication based on address fields. This was largely done in Excel and SAS. The general approach to de-duplicate was to keep either the most recent record or the most complete record. However incomplete address information for some records and small variations in address information for others mean that duplicates will remain. More information can be found at: https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotland-heat-map-documents/.
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