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Were particular lessons learned from the Beauly to Denny project, which took forever to get through? Landscape-scale mitigations were put in place, communities came forward to seek reductions in the wirescape in their surrounding areas and substations were moved, so some benefits flew from the project as well. Is that feeding into the current thinking? We have been here before with the Beauly to Denny project, where there were debates about undergrounding and everything else.

I want to go back to the issue of community benefit for windfarms. When a lot of the windfarms were being developed in the early noughties, the community benefit payment levels were set quite low. Sometimes, the level is set at around £1,000 a megawatt. Some of those windfarms are seeking to expand or they are repowering. Is that an opportunity to dramatically increase the amount of money that communities are getting per megawatt from those projects as they seek to expand and become more efficient?

The ambition of an extra 12GW is huge, so the potential benefit to communities is huge as well, regardless of whether that is through ownership or, indeed, through a smaller amount of money coming through a community benefit payment.

I want to go back to hydrogen to explore the Government’s vision for that. We have targets in the energy strategy, for 5GW of hydrogen by 2030 and 25GW by 2045. I want to get a sense of where you see that generation coming from and the mix of blue hydrogen versus green hydrogen, or the transition to green hydrogen. Where do you see the 5GW of capacity coming from and how can that shift over time?

I guess that the blue hydrogen would come from Grangemouth and maybe on-site generation at Mossmorran. Beyond that and the Acorn project cluster, are we looking at green hydrogen going forward?

Okay. I will move on to the Acorn project and the CCS cluster. I think that there is recognition in the energy strategy and just transition plan that that is needed, particularly for hard-to-abate sectors. It is not clear that there is any other pathway to decarbonise those sectors. However, there are still risks and uncertainties around the deployment of the technology, and not least the track 2 process. What would we do if we did not have Acorn? Is there an alternative pathway in respect of energy? Are there other technologies or avenues that could be explored, or are all the eggs in one basket?

Thanks very much.

Can you give a picture of who will fund that, how it will be funded, and the relative contributions of industry and Government? Is there clarity on that?

The Tories’ Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill is not only a failure of statecraft but an attempt to systematically dismantle the state and, with it, the protections and rights that Britain helped to create during our decades of membership of the European Union. There are some welcome signs that the UK Government may be forced to weaken its approach to throwing EU laws over the cliff edge in December, but are there particular portfolios where the threat of a race to the bottom in standards still hangs over Scotland?

Thanks very much for those introductions and, indeed, stories. You are all good storytellers, and you have given us some great examples.

I want to drill down a bit and look at what actually works with regard to funding, partnerships and so on. It sounds as if a diversity of connections is being made between your organisations and, say, statutory agencies, councils and other organisations in your area. Can you drill down into that and be quite succinct about what actually works? In previous evidence sessions, the committee has heard, for example, about the NHS in England employing people to go round and find social prescribing opportunities, and we have also heard about some of the partnerships that have emerged from community planning partnerships.

I am interested, though, in hearing your perspectives on the essence of this. How do you develop the funding partnerships that allow you to undertake more longer-term work in your projects? That question is open to whoever wants to come in.