Post by cyrilr on Aug 20, 2023 17:24:11 GMT 9.5
A good website for data on the British national grid.
grid.iamkate.com/
The UK is an interesting example of a successful coal power phaseout using mostly wind power, and a little sun. Impressively, and surprisingly (to me, as a renewables critic) with little increase in natural gas and no increase in nuclear. Even more impressive when you look at electric prices, they have not risen much (recent rise is due to the geopolitical situation with Russian gas etc). CO2 emissions per kWh have dropped from 500 g to 150g. A 70% reduction in 10 years is quite impressive as well. Of course they also increased interconnectors and it isn’t entirely clear how this is accounted for, but that’s a minority of their power supply.
In all I am very much impressed by the UK efforts, at least in terms of electricity supply.
grid.iamkate.com/
The UK is an interesting example of a successful coal power phaseout using mostly wind power, and a little sun. Impressively, and surprisingly (to me, as a renewables critic) with little increase in natural gas and no increase in nuclear. Even more impressive when you look at electric prices, they have not risen much (recent rise is due to the geopolitical situation with Russian gas etc). CO2 emissions per kWh have dropped from 500 g to 150g. A 70% reduction in 10 years is quite impressive as well. Of course they also increased interconnectors and it isn’t entirely clear how this is accounted for, but that’s a minority of their power supply.
In all I am very much impressed by the UK efforts, at least in terms of electricity supply.
