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by data_maan
1392 days ago
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You say "better" but you're not giving a comparison. The UK doesn't appear anywhere in the ranking on the Wikipedia link of countries with >90% electricity from renewables. You're last link also pertains to electricity only BTW (you make it sound like all energy is considered) and the UK aims for 2025 to have "periods" of fossil-free electricity generation, while other countries do that already today and not just for "periods". I'm sorry, but the UK sucks. My only consolation to you is that a number of other western countries also suck. |
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My point is that, in the past decade, the UK has transitioned to renewables faster than any other major industrialised nation.
As recently as 2012, nearly 45% of UK electricity still came from coal. This has been cut to around 1% in 2022, and all remaining coal-fired power stations will be closed completely by 2025.
Obviously there is still much more to do, but the UK compares favourably here to, for example, the USA or Germany.