Part 5Other climate change provisions
Chapter 3Energy efficiency
Promotion of energy efficiency and renewable heat
61Duty of Scottish Ministers to promote renewable heat
1
The Scottish Ministers must prepare and publish a plan for the promotion of the use of heat produced from renewable sources.
2
The plan must, in particular—
a
set—
i
targets for the percentage of heat to be produced from renewable sources; and
ii
in relation to each target, the date by which it should be met; and
b
describe how those targets are to be reported on.
3
The plan prepared under subsection (1) must be published no later than 12 months after the day on which this section comes into force.
4
The Scottish Ministers—
a
may, from time to time; and
b
must, before the end of the period mentioned in subsection (5),
review the plan prepared and published under this section.
5
The period referred to in subsection (4)(b) is the period of 2 years beginning with the day on which—
a
the plan is first published; or
b
the plan was last reviewed under subsection (4).
6
Where, following a review under subsection (4), the Scottish Ministers vary the plan, they must, as soon as reasonably practicable after so doing, publish the plan as so varied.
7
In this section, “renewable sources” has the same meaning as in section 60(9).