Shetland Islands Council is supporting a bid for £30,000 of funding from the Scottish Executive’s £20 million Local Energy Challenge Fund to erect a wind turbine at Rova Head, north of Lerwick.

The turbine would produce electricity that could be used to expand the district heating system or to produce hydrogen.

The council says that if the bid is successful, it may consider purchasing a fleet of hydrogen-powered lorries, in the same way that Aberdeen City Council runs such buses under a £1.65 million Government-funded project.