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Britain likely to generate more electricity from wind, solar and hydro than fossil fuels for the first year ever in 2023::There are many milestones to pass in the transition from a high to low-carbon sustainable energy system. There is the first hour without coal, or oil, or gas generation (or all of them together) and the point when the last ...

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[-] ieightpi@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You have Canada doing their part, and now another English speaking country. Plus most of Europe seems to be on the right path. When will the rest of the world just finally shun the US for a being little bitch? Or idk like punish us with tarrifs or whatever idk...This coming from a disgruntled US citizen, I fucking hate this place.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 11 points 2 years ago

Must admit I hate online arguments about the cleanliness of electrically powered heating, transport, or whatever because you'll always get an American stating that "it's all just fossil fuels at some point".

No, just because your power generation is stuck in the last century, doesn't mean we all are.

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Carbon credits are already a thing. I expect that that will be priced into tariffs going forward, so countries that aren’t lifting their weight become less competitive.

[-] ieightpi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I look forward to this happening

[-] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

I tend to go off the https://grid.iamkate.com/ website which is a good day by day look at power generation and summarises the year. Renewables have so far surpassed fossil fuels 10.7GW compared to 10.3GW with other sources taking 5.9GW of which biomass is 1.52GW. I don't personally think biomass is renewable because its burning old forests and at a rate far faster than the wood is replanted and we know that old forests store much more CO2 than new ones. With hydro and Nuclear its a pretty close run thing if we consider them green renewables are the majority of power production.

Still a way to go, obviously more capacity is required and more storage and this will inevitably lead to excess power in the summer which is how renewables will work and hopefully we will find a good use for free power capturing CO2. A lot of projects are held up by the grid in the UK, more than enough to complete this transition, companies want to install the production its just the grid holding everything up with plans out to 2035.

[-] eleitl@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

How much less electricity is UK using in 2023 vs 2022? Or pre-pandemic years.

[-] Deebster@programming.dev 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
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