What other country has politicians so gullible that they end up making their electorate pay to produce energy needed in another country?

What other country would set a renewable-energy obligation that taxes its consumers to produce 18 per cent of electricity to compensate for the failure of England to reach its 10 per cent obligation?

The reduced cost of connecting to the UK national grid for Scottish renewable energy producers should be welcomed because it ought to allow Scottish wind energy producers to export energy to England to be paid for by English consumers. The truth is that Scottish consumers are being obliged to pay for renewable energy to plug an English accounting gap: England may have a target that 10 per cent of electricity consumed comes from renewables, but the renewable production incentives fail to account for the fact that around one unit of renewable electricity in ten fails to reach the consumer.

This is effectively accounted for by the 8 per cent of Scottish electricity coming from large hydro, and while this does not need a subsidy from consumers, why is the renewable energy obligation for Scotland artificially set at a higher 18 per cent rather than the 10 per cent in England? If England needs Scottish wind to fulfil its renewable energy target, surely English consumers should pay Scottish wind energy producers. Indeed, because the target has been incremental, if proper account had been taken of our already high levels of renewables through hydro, then with a decent government looking after Scottish consumers not a penny would have been paid in higher bills.

When will the Scottish Government wake up and realise that the Scottish consumer is fed up of being asked to fund the English to achieve their renewable energy targets, and when will the government realise it is time to turn Scottish wind energy from a subsidy junkie into an export earner?