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Scotland on Sunday via NewsEdge Corporation : Source: Scotland on Sunday, May 06, 2001

JEREMY WATSON

THE Scottish Executive is considering importing massive quantities of electricity from Iceland along a submarine cable as part of plans to combat global warming.

Environmental scientists believe the 620-mile undersea cable could be used to import up to 20% of Scotland's energy needs while reducing the current dependence on fossil fuels, such as oil and gas.

The underwater cable is being presented as a serious option at a seminar this weekend by Dr Andrew Kerr, of the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change at Edinburgh University, who was commissioned by the Executive to compare how other North Atlantic countries are tackling the problem.

He is advocating a feasibility study to explore whether up to 5,000 gigawatt hours - equivalent to 20% of Scotland's electricity requirements - of energy from renewable sources should be imported from Iceland.

The island produces all of its electricity from renewable sources such as geothermal heat - which produces no greenhouse gases.

“A large, submarine electricity cable from Iceland to Scotland is of great interest for the future energy market in Scotland,” said Kerr.

The interconnector cable could be run from the coast of Iceland via the Faroe Islands, possibly to Dounreay in Caithness or through Orkney to Shetland to landfall near Aberdeen.

Although the cost of building the link would be at least pounds 500m, the electricity would still be cheaper than that produced in either coal, oil, gas or nuclear power stations.