OK, so Michael Gove might be the new minister for the environment but there is some good news: renewable sources of energy have generated more electricity than coal and gas in Great Britain for the first time.
National Grid reported recently that on recent sunny Wednesday power from wind, solar, hydro and wood pellet burning supplied 50.7% of UK energy.Add in nuclear, and by 2pm low carbon sources were producing 72.1% of electricity in Great Britain.
The National Grid, the body that owns and manages the power supply around the UK, said in a tweet: “For the first time ever this lunchtime wind, nuclear and solar were all generating more than both gas and coal combined.”
