>In March, almost half of the UK’s electricity was generated by renewables, with wind power delivering a new record and coal accounting for just 0.5% of generation
Gas was at 33.7% and wind power at 29%. It’s happened so quickly. And this is all without really trying. Imagine if the government put real investment into wind power, along with energy storage.
Amazing news! Give it a few (five) more years and we’ll be pretty much 100% renewables with the occasional gas when the weather is still and dim.
i don’t know why so many in this country seemingly enjoy constantly chastising ourselves for not doing enough. The strides we’ve made with wind power is phenomenal, we’re one of the world leaders.
To be honest any gains from here on out in terms of emissions would be marginal and pretty much pointless. Even if we were to disappear off the face of the planet it wouldn’t make any difference.
In March I managed 66% (of 829kwh) from solar, so far in April we’re on 77% (of 209kwh) the rest is charging batteries overnight off peak. Nice to know even the bit we import is getting cleaner
Now we need to get working on solar and a proper nuclear power scheme to finally get things going in the right direction. All new buildings should have solar panels as standard and there should be tax reliefs for people who install them on their roofs. Nuclear power needs to be nationalised and taken out of the hands of EDF and the Chinese government, who have failed to live up to their contracts and left us with unfinished nuclear power stations that are not even safe.
And yet we tax the bejesus out of renewables, so that electricity costs are through the roof. Tax profits from non-renewables more, until there’s a better incentive to generate electricity from renewables and the price of electricity comes down.
When history looks at this, Europe lost a lot of its power as coal moved to oil. It’s no surprise that Europe is desperate to move on from oil.
It’s always struck me as really odd that as a country with one of the largest coastlines in the world, we’ve never properly invested in costal energy production. I’m completely not an expert, but it would be interesting to know why that is…
This is a generally misleading title, as the 83% was the figure for a single day. Gas was still the main source of electricity throughout march, with windpower a close second
Good news for energy companies charging us out the arse for electricity that barely costs them anything to actually produce
But apparently we are ‘doing nothing’ according to the eco mob.
Why are electric bills still so insanely high then? I thought that was because we were so reliant on gas and our bills went up to cover increased gas prices due to the war in Ukraine?
‘BuT NuClEAR iS ThE oNlY oPtIoN’
or
‘BaSe LoAd’
Honestly, The UK is set up to be a renewable superpower and we still get people crying we need to change to nuclear because…. whilst they ignore the UK has had our own Nuclear incidents.
So why are we being charged a shitload for electrify usage in our energy bills?
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>In March, almost half of the UK’s electricity was generated by renewables, with wind power delivering a new record and coal accounting for just 0.5% of generation
Gas was at 33.7% and wind power at 29%. It’s happened so quickly. And this is all without really trying. Imagine if the government put real investment into wind power, along with energy storage.
Amazing news! Give it a few (five) more years and we’ll be pretty much 100% renewables with the occasional gas when the weather is still and dim.
i don’t know why so many in this country seemingly enjoy constantly chastising ourselves for not doing enough. The strides we’ve made with wind power is phenomenal, we’re one of the world leaders.
To be honest any gains from here on out in terms of emissions would be marginal and pretty much pointless. Even if we were to disappear off the face of the planet it wouldn’t make any difference.
In March I managed 66% (of 829kwh) from solar, so far in April we’re on 77% (of 209kwh) the rest is charging batteries overnight off peak. Nice to know even the bit we import is getting cleaner
Now we need to get working on solar and a proper nuclear power scheme to finally get things going in the right direction. All new buildings should have solar panels as standard and there should be tax reliefs for people who install them on their roofs. Nuclear power needs to be nationalised and taken out of the hands of EDF and the Chinese government, who have failed to live up to their contracts and left us with unfinished nuclear power stations that are not even safe.
And yet we tax the bejesus out of renewables, so that electricity costs are through the roof. Tax profits from non-renewables more, until there’s a better incentive to generate electricity from renewables and the price of electricity comes down.
Source data in case anyone is looking for it https://www.nationalgrideso.com/electricity-explained/electricity-and-me/great-britains-monthly-electricity-stats
The 83% value is the maximum, the average is 47%
When history looks at this, Europe lost a lot of its power as coal moved to oil. It’s no surprise that Europe is desperate to move on from oil.
It’s always struck me as really odd that as a country with one of the largest coastlines in the world, we’ve never properly invested in costal energy production. I’m completely not an expert, but it would be interesting to know why that is…
This is a generally misleading title, as the 83% was the figure for a single day. Gas was still the main source of electricity throughout march, with windpower a close second
Good news for energy companies charging us out the arse for electricity that barely costs them anything to actually produce
But apparently we are ‘doing nothing’ according to the eco mob.
Why are electric bills still so insanely high then? I thought that was because we were so reliant on gas and our bills went up to cover increased gas prices due to the war in Ukraine?
‘BuT NuClEAR iS ThE oNlY oPtIoN’
or
‘BaSe LoAd’
Honestly, The UK is set up to be a renewable superpower and we still get people crying we need to change to nuclear because…. whilst they ignore the UK has had our own Nuclear incidents.
So why are we being charged a shitload for electrify usage in our energy bills?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_offshore_wind_farms_in_the_United_Kingdom
It’s only going to improve as well with the numerous massive farms being built on Dogger Bank and the one further South.
Don’t care, since we left EU we’re nothing but a backward shit show