ScottishPower has minimised resource use and waste and established circular processes that keep materials in use at high value for the long term.
We are already making a difference:
Cutting our waste
- 97% of our waste was diverted from landfill in 2024
- >3000 tCO2e emissions avoided through transformer refurbishment and reuse since 2019
- Waste generated reduced by >20,000t between 2020 and 2024
- Implemented a wind turbine component repair, reuse, and repurposing programme
- Increased focus on asset life extension
Planning for the future, managing risk and seizing opportunities
- Published our comprehensive Circular Economy Action Plan
- Developed a resources and circularity baseline and identified existing and future circularity opportunities and interdependencies
- Enhanced the collection and management of materials inflow data
Applying new techniques and approaches
- £13.3m long term benefit to society from low voltage monitoring and contracting flexibility to defer network reinforcement
- Developing a new process to increase reuse of offshore batteries with potential benefits across offshore industry
- Created a new integrated access road framework that enables the reuse of aggregates across networks projects
- Completed an Asset Reuse and Recovery Collaboration project in partnership with SSE and Zero Waste Scotland
Building partnerships and working in alliances for circularity
- Members of the UN Global Compact, SusWind, the Forum for Circular Infrastructure, The Scottish Low Carbon Concrete Collective and the Infrastructure Client Group
Circular Economy Targets
Zero waste to landfill by 2030
100% wind turbine blade recycling* and solar panel recycling by 2030
*This target is subject to the existence of a commercially feasible solution
Read more about the Sustainable Development Strategy – Action 2030.