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by Anon826 904 days ago
UK government pays for energy projects in Scotland to help Scottish economy. Scotland makes up 7% of UK economy. Scotland claims 100% ownership after independence. Genius SNP.
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The big wind projects aren't "owned" by the UK/Scottish governments, they are private* assets built under a government license. Most likely an independent Scotland would continue to license these wind farms and the energy trade with the rest of the UK would continue under very similar terms.

* Actually, many of them are owned by non-UK governments.

Isn't it the other way around? British gov sells licenses for windparks for billions. It then guarantees electricity price to a certain degree. This would be presumably paid by the Scottish gov.