Scotland Pays More Than England
For Its Own Electricity.
The UK has Europe’s highest household energy costs. And Scotland’s are the highest in the UK.
But Scotland has such a massive surplus of clean wind energy that it sends cheap electricity to England.
Amazingly Westminster then charges Scotland a transmission fee for sending it to them.
These transmission charges are the highest in the UK and in fact in all of Europe.
Scottish transmission fees are 2.54 times the English transmission fee average.
This amounts to approximately £100 million a year and it is added directly to Scottish home energy bills, making them the highest in the UK.
This is all for energy produced in Scotland by Scots and used locally in Scotland by Scots.
London pays almost 1/3 the transmission price that Scots do for Scottish produced electricity.
Scotland is subsidising England with electricity as well as massive amounts of oil.
And Scottish energy bills are far far higher than they need to be.
In 2025 Scotland is producing 3x the amount of electricity it needs for itself. All of it is clean and renewable.
This is already world leading and will only increase in the future. Scotland has a lot of open space, open sea and reliable strong wind. It also has expertise in energy logistics and offshore industries.
Properly managed after independence it is even possible that Scottish home energy bills could be close to zero.
Certainly electricity and oil would be a major Scottish export, perhaps the largest of energy exports in all the EU.
Scottish energy in Scotland would be the cheapest in Europe and cheap power immediately attracts the biggest business corporations and industrial manufacturing corporations.
All the massive internet corporations, (Google, GPTOpen AI, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter etc etc), will expand anywhere that they can find cheap electricity for their massive data storage centre energy needs. Energy is their single largest operating expense.
That global expansion could easily be in independent Scotland, a new Celtic Tiger of low cost renewable energy.