The UK has decarbonised its electricity supply faster than any other major economy, largely thanks to the rapid phase out (now complete) of coal power!The si...
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)
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