Renewables perform better than UK fossil fuels for the first time in 2020 – Energy Newspaper

The latest figures from the government The UK shows that renewable electricity generation will surpass fossil fuels for the first time in 2020, Providing 43% of the country’s electricity. Fossil fuels accounted for 38.5%, the report said Energy trends of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategies (BEIS).

Marine and coastal winds account for more than half of the UK’s renewable energy by 2020, accounting for 24.2% of the country’s electricity needs (13% of seawater and 11.2% of the UK’s electricity needs). Coastal wind). Low carbon sources (renewable and nuclear) accounted for 59%.

The renewable generation has increased year by year and last year’s record is mainly driven by higher wind production, which is an increase of 18% compared to 2019, the report highlights.

Deputy Managing Director Renewable U.K.Melanie Owen said: “Today’s record numbers set in the face of epidemics show that the renewables in the most challenging period facing any of us in decades have kept this country with credible power.”

Overall, renewables grew by just 2% in 2020, the lowest growth rate since 2010, compared to an average of almost 20% growth over the previous 10 years.

Extra capacity for some technologies was not seen in some quarters; In the second quarter, there was no increase in coastal air and biology and no fresh sea breeze capacity in the third and fourth quarters, which had previously seen large increases.

The new solar PV capacity will be sluggish by 2020, with 217 MW added in 2020, up from 273 MW in 2019.

BEIS also released figures covering the last three months of 2020, showing that wind power generated 24.9% of UK electricity in the fourth quarter (14.1% offshore and 10.8% offshore). Renewable energies typically contributed 40.5% during this period.

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