@CAVOK to [email protected]English • 19 hours agoThe UK no longer uses coal poweryoutube.commessage-square7arrow-up1100arrow-down10
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minus-square@TheGrandNaguslinkEnglish17•13 hours agoIt’s been hovering around the 0.5% to 1.5% mark for years, but it’s finally gone now. For the past 12 months, this is how the energy mix of the UK has looked: Wind, 32.1% Gas, 26.6% Nuclear, 14.8% Biomass, 7.0% Solar, 5.1% Hydroelectric, 1.4% Coal, 1.1% The remainder gets imported, mostly from France and Norway, so is likely primarily Nuclear and Hydroelectric.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•12 hours ago The remainder gets imported 32,1+26,6+14,8+7+5,1+1,4+1,1 = 88,1 So 11,9 % gets/got imported?
minus-square@TheGrandNaguslinkEnglish6•edit-29 hours agoYes. Imports/exports are as follows: France, 7.6% Norway, 3.3% Belgium, 1.5% Denmark, 0.9% Netherlands, 0.6% Ireland, -1.9% There’s a remaining 0.1%, which comes from pumped energy storage.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-27 hours agoThe fact that the majority of power imports is are from France and Norway is also good news as they both have very high zero carbon generation (nuclear and hydro respectively)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•10 hours agoPossible. This bad boy makes up 5% of the UK power supply by itself: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVDC_Cross-Channel
It’s been hovering around the 0.5% to 1.5% mark for years, but it’s finally gone now.
For the past 12 months, this is how the energy mix of the UK has looked:
Wind, 32.1%
Gas, 26.6%
Nuclear, 14.8%
Biomass, 7.0%
Solar, 5.1%
Hydroelectric, 1.4%
Coal, 1.1%
The remainder gets imported, mostly from France and Norway, so is likely primarily Nuclear and Hydroelectric.
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32,1+26,6+14,8+7+5,1+1,4+1,1 = 88,1So 11,9 % gets/got imported?
Yes. Imports/exports are as follows:
France, 7.6%
Norway, 3.3%
Belgium, 1.5%
Denmark, 0.9%
Netherlands, 0.6%
Ireland, -1.9%
There’s a remaining 0.1%, which comes from pumped energy storage.
The fact that the majority of power imports
isare from France and Norway is also good news as they both have very high zero carbon generation (nuclear and hydro respectively)Possible. This bad boy makes up 5% of the UK power supply by itself:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVDC_Cross-Channel