Analisi: i combustibili fossili scendono brevemente al minimo storico del 2,4% dell’elettricità britannica
Analysis: Fossil fuels fall to record-low 2.4% of British electricity
di JB_UK
Analisi: i combustibili fossili scendono brevemente al minimo storico del 2,4% dell’elettricità britannica
Analysis: Fossil fuels fall to record-low 2.4% of British electricity
di JB_UK
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This is a good article describing progress on the technical hurdles for a 100% renewable grid.
The big remaining issue is described really well by [the first graph they show](https://www.carbonbrief.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Fossil-fuels-fell-to-a-record-low-2.4-of-British-electricity-on-15-April-2024-2-1536×1089.png)you can see the percentage of fossil fuels starts at above 80%, then it falls, the average is now down to almost 20%, but it also becomes much more erratic, so you can see on the most recent data sometimes the fossil fuel percentage is very low, sometimes it’s still above 70%. So what renewables are allowing us to do is burn less gas, but we still have to keep the gas infrastructure and plants running so they can be used when neither solar nor wind are providing electricity.
To go much further, we will need a new way to store electricity over longer periods of time. Or build more nuclear.
I’ll be celebrating when UK’s energy grid is running at 100% renewables permanently, with fossil fuels completely cut from the grid.
Until then, I will ignore the green bread crumbs and continue pressuring the government to invest more into green energy.
So how come the electricity bills are highly sensitive to fossil fuel prices??
I’ve seen the amount devately already dipped to a negative before.
Was like 6% fossil fuels but we were exporting 8% to Europe.
A proper 0% would be nice though.