National Grid unlocks ‘record breaking’ energy milestone as UK harnesses ‘cheapest’ power

The National Grid ESO, which runs the UK’s electricity systems, tweeted yesterday: “The wind record continues to tumble. For the first time in UK history we can confirm that wind has produced over 20GW of electricity!!!”

They later confirmed the figures by saying: “Yesterday, wind generated 20896MW in the 12:30 settlement period. That’s OVER HALF (53 percent) of all of GB’s electricity. Overall, it was a VERY green day – 70 percent of energy was zero carbon (Nuclear, Wind, Hydro, Solar Storage)”.

They estimated that yesterday, wind energy produced 54.9 percent of the UK’s electricity, followed by natural gas at 20.6 percent, at nuclear at 14.1 percent. 

Meanwhile, electricity imports through interconnections with Europe were responsible 5.3 percent of the country’s mix, followed by biomass at 2.0 percent, hydro at 1.7 percent, solar 1.3 at percent, and coal at just 0.1 percent.

Article source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1691922/energy-crisis-national-grid-offshore-wind-milestone-renewables-record-breaking-cheap-power