CAVOK@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 2 months agoThe UK no longer uses coal poweryoutube.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1108arrow-down10
arrow-up1108arrow-down1external-linkThe UK no longer uses coal poweryoutube.comCAVOK@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·2 months 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-squareKissaki@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months 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-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoYes. Imports as a part of the grid composition over the past year: France, 7.6% Norway, 3.3% Belgium, 1.5% Denmark, 0.9% Netherlands, 0.6% You’ll notice that this all adds up to over 100%, that’s because the UK also exports 1.9% of its energy to Ireland. There’s a remaining 0.1%, which comes from pumped energy storage.
minus-squarethanksforallthefishlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 months 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-squareaddie@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months 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.
32,1+26,6+14,8+7+5,1+1,4+1,1 = 88,1So 11,9 % gets/got imported?
Yes. Imports as a part of the grid composition over the past year:
France, 7.6%
Norway, 3.3%
Belgium, 1.5%
Denmark, 0.9%
Netherlands, 0.6%
You’ll notice that this all adds up to over 100%, that’s because the UK also exports 1.9% of its energy to Ireland.
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
https://grid.iamkate.com