More than 10% of UK power now comes from renewables
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Renewable energy is powering forward in the UK, according to the 2012 update to the Renewable Energy Roadmap published today by Energy Secretary Edward Davey.
Significant progress has been made on the rollout of renewable energy across the United Kingdom from July 2011 to July 2012, including a 40 per cent increase over the same period in renewable electricity capacity. Now over 10 per cent of all electricity generated is coming from renewables and a five-fold increase in solar PV capacity.
The Roadmap shows that the UK is on track to meeting our first interim target on the way to the ambitious European target to source 15% of all energy from renewable sources by 2020.
Edward Davey, Energy and Climate Change Secretary, said: “It’s a fantastic achievement that more than ten percent of our power now comes from renewables, given the point from which we started.”
The Roadmap also shows that in the last year the cost of solar PV has fallen by 50%, with the technology now identified as a key technology in the Roadmap update.