‘A huge milestone for Britain’: Renewables provided half of the UK’s electricity in 2024

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1. What was that about renewables being unreliable?

   Something something you never knew what the hell you were talking about?

2. A really cool stat but that’s all it is, what does it mean for the average person, nothing, nothing when bills are still sky high and utilities rocketing.

   Nothing but a cool headline and that’s it.

3. Great start, once it’s close to 100% it will start encouraging electrification of industries that use more expensive, less efficient energy sources.

4. A another huge milestones to consider:

   >Highest industrial energy cost in the world.

   >3rd highest domestic energy cost in Europe.

   This will encourage people to use less energy therefore it’s good for fighting the climate change to save the planet, higher energy cost is feature not a bug.

5. Excellent news. Hopefully we’ll see that increase substantially this year.

6. Means nothing when bills go every 3 months without fail.

7. Unlink the electricity price from gas and pass these savings on to consumers. Watch investment and support for renewables go through the roof.

8. What a huge milestone for the energy companies, they must be thrilled to further minimise spending while they maximise profit gouging us all!

9. Let’s all gather round and celebrate the highest Energy Costs in the World while acknowledging that, on a Global Scale it makes little or no contribution to stopping Global Warming

10. Pity the UK don’t actually own any of it and we’re actually subsidising other nations bills and pensions while our own bills are extortionate so please spare us the sensational headlines🙄

11. I feel like if someone were digging deep into this it probably isn’t the case.

    Like they mean half the domestic households but not commercial buildings or something.

12. Britain has amongst the highest electricity costs in the world because of renewables. It’s killing industry.

13. Electricty not energy. We’re still dependent on fossil fuels for much of our lives and industry.

14. I hope we ADD to this, this little island can’t be beholden to the energy exports of bad actors.

15. Uh ho something to celebrate…im not sure the UK remembers how to not celebrate without ruining or fine dining something to complain about …I. sure its labours fault what ever it is.

16. Great, now build more nuclear at the same time so we can actually have some long term investment that will help us be less dependent on foreign countries.

17. So we’re getting more and more energy from renewable, which means energy should become cheaper and cheaper, right?

18. Germany is burning coal. 

    We should at least be using the gas in the north sea to bring down prices. We have some of the most expensive electricity in Europe.

19. these comments are whacked up on scooby snacks, 96% upvoted but many oddly negative in the comments… i smell some wd40 working those little fingers.

    anyone with half a brain knows this is great progress and we need to expand as much a possible as quickly as possible. get everyone on evs and then we will have a huge source of batteries to store with any fluctuations.

20. It should mean incredibly cheap electricity incentivising an uptake in EV’s and folk exploring heat pumps, but the insane level of levies on our energy bills are making that impossible. We are led by donkeys (successive governments from both sides).

21. Onshore wind has been the cheapest source of energy for about 15 years and it was effectively banned in England for 10 of those.

    Why are energy bills so high? Must be those renewables that we banned. Or the insulation we stopped fitting when the Tories decided to “cut the green crap” and increased bills by 22 Billion since 2015:

    https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-cutting-the-green-crap-has-added-22bn-to-uk-energy-bills-since-2015/

22. This is fantastic news, but do not misunderstand what it says. This is _electricity_ and not _energy_. Gas is still used to heat homes and there are still lots of petrol cars on the road.

23. Is this ragebait or what? I think the average customer is more concerned about the price than anything else. We’re losing pubs, hospitality and manufacturing businesses due to having literally the most expensive electricity in the world – energy companies are robbing us blind

24. This is really good news. It wasn’t long ago that there were headlines of reaching 50% on single days.

25. Good fuck the Russians and their hold on democratic Europe with their cheap gas. Anybody with a geopolitical brain knows this is a good thing.

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