LONDON --
U.K. renewable power generation rose 28 percent last year as more
wind farms and solar plants came online, the Department of Energy and
Climate Change said.
Wind, solar, hydro and biomass plants generated 52.8 terawatt-hours
of power last year, taking the share of renewables in the total power
mix to 14.8 percent from 11.3 percent in 2012, DECC said today in an
e-mailed report.
The surge was mainly due to higher wind capacity.
That’s bringing Britain closer to meeting its European Union target of
getting 15 percent of all energy, including heating and transportation
fuels, from renewables by 2020. The government is targeting about 30
percent of electricity from renewables because of slower progress in
heat and transport.
“By developing our wind resource we ease our reliance
on costly imported foreign fuels and reduce the amount of polluting CO2
in our atmosphere,” Jennifer Webber, director of external affairs at the
RenewableUK industry group, said in a statement.
Generating capacity from renewables rose by a quarter
to 19.4 gigawatts at the end of 2013 from 15.5 gigawatts a year earlier,
according to DECC. “More than one in eight U.K. homes is now powered from
clean renewable sources, at an extra cost to the typical household of
less than 1 pound ($1.66) a week,” said Nina Skorupska, chief executive
officer of the Renewable Energy Association, another trade group.
Onshore wind power rose 36 percent to 16.5
terawatt-hours and offshore wind rose 46 percent to 10.9 terawatt-hours,
according to the report. Solar power rose 70 percent to 2
terawatt-hours; bioenergy rose 23 percent to 18.7 terawatt-hours and
hydro power fell 11 percent to 4.7 terawatt-hours.
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