Analisi: la Gran Bretagna ha funzionato con energia pulita al 100% per record 87 ore nel 2025 finora
Analysis: Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far
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Analisi: la Gran Bretagna ha funzionato con energia pulita al 100% per record 87 ore nel 2025 finora
Analysis: Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far
di carbonbrief
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While great that it’s a new record, it’s been over 6500 hours since the start of 2025, so just 87 run entirely on renewables isn’t great.
We’ve been lucky with the summer we’ve had for energy generation, but it’s headed into winter.
We’re currently generating over 40% of our power from gas, and another 10% from “biomass” (Drax) which is basically as bad as coal.
And it’s not even dark yet.
Would be useful to see the corresponding hours for each nation in the UK.
Suspect England may be close to 87 hours….
We’re doing ok but can be doing so much better. Can’t wait for reform to get in and fuck everything up regardless
It’s great progress but we can go further! We don’t need old methods like oil and gas. Moving to 100% renewable energy would mean lower bills and energy security with no reliance on other countries!
We didn’t. Stats don’t show any moment where we used zero gas for electricity generation. At some point we were down to like 1.6GW of gas generation out of 25ish GW of demand, but that’s not 100%. As much as I like this to happen, it hasn’t happened yet.
Vote Reform and bring all such woke nonsense to an end. Higher energy bills, pollution and smog for all.
What do we want? No woke energy
When do we want it? Now
The wording of these climate organisations has got to change, this is good and great news but it’s made for an audience of 10 years ago.
They should have focused on it being nationally produced and that Britain hasn’t needed to rely on foreign imports for X hours (whilst also being good for climate change action) that would be more inspirational given the current political climate.
Sadly this achievement (very admirable as it is) is being completely negated by the continual fall in nuclear generation over the past 25 years as old reactors are turned off and no new ones built since 1995 – and really only a literal handful built since the 1970s.
Right now, nuclear is down to just 2.5GW, around 7% of UK demand, while back in the 90s it supplied over 25% UK electricity. The key difference being that was a reliable 25%, even on cold still winter evenings when renewables output often drops to near zero and the gas power plants roar away at their highest levels ever.
**We need more renewables (and related grid infrastructure) but we also desperately need new nuclear plants even more to prevent continued reliance on fossil fuels for electricity – and especially for heating and transport.**