Lagamorph wrote:I think about 25% of the total UK energy comes from Renewables at the moment, 50% is fossil fuels (Almost all of it gas) and the remaining 25% is stuff like Nuclear.
https://grid.iamkate.com/This site is great for showing the live breakdown of what energy sources are being used.
The Times had an article about the break even costs of installing Solar panels, it can be less than 5 years now due to how expensive energy has got when previously it was about 3x as many years.
We're doing a lot of LNG exporting to Europe atm partly because we've got the required infrastructure to transfer LNG (Spain and Portugal have the terminals but their pipe work doesn't connect to the rest of Europe) and partly because a lot of the French nuclear power stations are down for maintenance or not at full capacity (their designs require water cooling and the drought in France is particularly severe).
The progress on renewable energy, particularly the falling costs of wind turbines and increased efficiency from better / bigger designs has been very impressive, the main downside is that battery technology hasn't kept pace and the best kind of storage requires favourable geography (basically pushing water up a hill).