21st January 2025
EP Report

Britain produced its cleanest electricity on record last year with output of fossil fuels at an all-time low and renewables reaching a record high, a study showed.

 

Oil, gas, and coal together produced 29 percent of the UK's electricity in 2024 while renewables -- including wind and solar power -- made up 45 percent, according to an analysis released recently from the climate and energy website Carbon Brief.

 

Britain's last coal-fired power station closed in October, making the UK the first G7 country to end its reliance on the fossil fuel for electricity.

 

The Labour government followed this up in November with plans to ban new coal mines.

 

Carbon Brief added that nuclear energy was used to produce 13 percent of Britain's electricity last year. A total of 11 percent of Britain's electricity was imported.

 

Gas-fired power stations remained the UK's single-largest source of electricity in 2024, the analysis found.

 

However, Carbon Brief forecast that the island nation's wind power would likely generate more electricity than gas this year.

 

Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government has pledged to reduce UK greenhouse gas emissions by 81 percent on 1990 levels by 2035, as part of plans to reach net-zero by 2050.


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