Re:Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK govern...
by natmaka on Friday August 28, 2020 @12:55AM
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In Europe the share of renewable energy consumption in gross final energy consumption is booming: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/refreshTableAction.do?tab=...
Re:Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK govern...
by ThomPete on Thursday August 27, 2020 @07:44PM
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Electricity is only around 15-20% of a countrys energy usage.
Re:Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK govern...
by imtringued on Friday August 28, 2020 @06:55AM
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Electric vehicles will change that.
That's an interesting statistic, but the topic of the article is electricity in the UK not energy use in the world. A more useful statistic would be this:
"The government’s official data has revealed that renewable energy made up 47% of the UK’s electricity generation in the first three months of the year, smashing the previous quarterly record of 39% set last year."[0]
It's true that doesn't include the energy used by gas heating systems or fuel used by vehicles, for example, but to bring those into consideration it would be helpful to know how quickly heating systems and vehicles are being replaced by electric equivalents (increasing the load on the grid, although per capita energy consumption in the UK has been decreasing for decades).
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/25/renewable-e...