The report said a Scottish Government would not allow Scottish generation to be “compromised” by “expensive, long-term contracts for new nuclear generation”.
However, it expects to continue a system of shared support for renewables, claiming Scottish generation “will continue to be the most cost-effective means for the rest of the UK to meet its renewable ambitions”.
It would have an “energy partnership” with Westminster and continue to take part in a Great Britain-wide market with a single system operator, but with its own energy regulator.
Launching the blueprint, Holyrood first minister Alex Salmond said it was “a mission statement and a prospectus for the kind of country we should be and which this Government believes we can be”.