Davey doubts independent Scotland can afford green energy goal

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Country's target of 100 per cent renewable electricity by 2020 may be "too great a burden for Scottish consumers alone"

Ed Davey has warned an independent Scotland would face higher energy bills if the costs of the nation's push to be wholly powered by green electricity are no longer shared across the whole of the UK...

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