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Renewables overtake fossil fuels for first time in UK as Europe transitions to green energy

  • macmalmil
  • Jan 28, 2021
  • 1 min read

Historic milestone also reported in Spain, as Germany signals shift away from polluting electricity production


There are better ways, ways that we should know, consider and do, others already have gone to these paths, will you?


Official Report

By Tom Batchelor

January 28, 2021



The rapid rise of renewables continued in 2020 with wind, solar, bioenergy and hydropower overtaking fossil fuels to collectively become the UK’s largest source of electricity for the first time.


Analysis from think tanks Ember and Agora Energiewende found that those four cleaner energies accounted for a record 42 per cent of the country’s electricity generation last year, while fossil fuels – mostly gas – fell into second place with a 41 per cent share.


Renewables also became the largest source of electricity for the European Union in 2020, with Germany and Spain – the bloc’s two largest electricity-consuming countries – reporting the same tipping point.



UK is a first-world country, if they have known and noticed that this is the better way, why haven't others?

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