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UK's Electricity Was Cleanest Ever in 2024

(Thursday January 02, 2025 @10:30PM (msmash) from the moving-forward dept.)


Britain recorded its cleanest electricity generation in 2024, with carbon dioxide emissions [1]falling to 124g per kilowatt hour , down from 419g in 2014, according to analysis by Carbon Brief released Thursday.

Renewables, including wind, solar and biomass, provided 45% of the country's power, while total low-carbon sources reached 58%. Gas remained the largest single source at 28% of generation, slightly ahead of wind at 26%.



[1] https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uks-electricity-was-cleanest-ever-in-2024/



biomass isn't clean (Score:2)

by rossdee ( 243626 )

even if it is so called renewable

Re: (Score:2)

by newcastlejon ( 1483695 )

It's even less clean when the wood is [1]shipped [bbc.co.uk] over from America.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59546278

Re: (Score:2)

by Smidge204 ( 605297 )

Depends on the biomass.

Wood pellets? Pretty awful. But "biomass" also includes resources like captured methane from anaerobic digestion processes in landfills and wastewater treatment, which would normally be either directly vented to atmosphere or flared off. Either way, using that to generate power is a huge benefit since you're making that gas anyway, and you're releasing those emissions anyway, so might as well put it to good use.

The article says the emissions from biomass were calculated to include the

Counterpoint analysys requested (Score:2)

by Bodhammer ( 559311 )

One of these things is not like the other, and I don't know what to believe today, January 2, 2025. [1]https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gr [wsj.com]... [wsj.com] I actually, as a human and a person who preferers not to shit in my own nest, would like to know how to best live my life - (new years resolutions and all that...)

[1] https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gr

Better metric ... (Score:2)

by PPH ( 736903 )

... than all the [1]we ran on 100% renewables for X days (minutes per day) [slashdot.org].

[1] https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/12/31/222226/california-grid-ran-on-100-renewables-for-a-record-98-days

Cheap, easy electricity! (Score:2)

by ndsurvivor ( 891239 )

Texas is almost as good as the UK now as far as renewables, and grid scale batteries. We are still selling oil and gas to everybody else, meanwhile... our electricity prices are going down. The propaganda from the Oil Companies is overwhelming common sense.

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