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UK Renewable Energy Capacity has Grown by 42.4% Oil Price.com By Joao Peixe | Thu, 27 September 2012 The government has just released its latest quarterly energy statistics and the results are mixed.

Renewable energy has enjoyed a bountiful year, whereas coal power has also seen an increase in popularity.

Renewable energy capacity rose by 42.4 percent to a total of 14.2 GW,
mostly due to a high number of large scale onshore and offshore wind
farms that have been installed. Renewable energy now accounts for 9.6
percent of the UK’s energy mix, up from 9 percent last year.

The government believes that the figures would have been higher still,
but for the lack of rainfall this year, and low winds which led to a
31 decrease in hydroelectricity generation and an 11 percent drop in
output from onshore wind farms.

Offshore wind farms, however, provided 1.64 TWh, 47 percent more than
the year before, Bioenergy production increased by 6.5 percent to a
little more than 3TWh, and solar and wave energy grew more than 900
percent to 0.47TWh.

The new statistical report suggests that the UK is on track to set a
plethora of new renewable energy records this year, despite criticism
that the government’s uncertain policies are scaring renewable energy
investors away…..
http://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/UK-Renewable-Energy-Capacity-has-Grown-by-42.4.html

September 28, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | renewable, UK