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Renewable energy is increasingly powering UK’s electricity grid

UK RENEWABLE ENERGY POWERS FORWARD Waste Management World, LONDON, Dec. 27 — The Department of Energy and Climate Change issued the following press release: Renewable energy is powering forward in the UK, according to the 2012 update to the Renewable Energy Roadmap published today by Energy Secretary Edward Davey.
Significant progress has been made on the rollout of renewable energy across the United Kingdom from July 2011 to July 2012, including:
* A 27 percent increase in overall renewable electricity generated;
* A 40 percent increase over the same period in renewable electricity capacity. Now over 10 percent of all electricity generated is coming from renewables;
* A 60 percent increase of offshore wind capacity to 2.5 gigawatts, and;
* A five-fold increase in solar PV capacity.
The Roadmap shows that the UK is on track to meeting our first interim target on the way to the ambitious European target to source 15% of all energy from renewable sources by 2020.
Edward Davey, Energy and Climate Change Secretary, said:
“Renewable energy is increasingly powering the UK’s grid, and the economy too.
“It’s a fantastic achievement that more than ten percent of our power now comes from renewables, given the point from which we started…..
EXAMPLES OF RENEWABLE ENERGY INVESTMENT ACROSS THE UK:
SCOTLAND….
WALES…..
NORTHERN IRELAND…..
NORTH EAST ENGLAND…..
YORKSHIRE & HUMBER…..
NORTH WEST…..
EAST MIDLANDS…..
SOUTH WEST….
EAST ENGLAND….. http://www.waste-management-world.com/news/2012/12/27/uk-renewable-energy-powers-forward.html

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