Last quarter saw major press coverage<\/a> about \u2018zero coal\u2019 as Britain went for a fortnight without any coal power stations operating. The bigger challenge is getting all the way to zero carbon electricity and moving away from all unabated fossil fuels. Article 2 looks at the progress Britain\u2019s power system is making, and how the last quarter saw the first full day with a carbon intensity below the Committee on Climate Change\u2019s critical target of 100 g\/kWh, and the first ever excursion below a 10% share of fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Back in 2017 we looked at electric cars getting greener<\/a> due to changes in the power system. A lot has changed in the last two years, more models are available and electric vans and taxis have taken off. Article 3 looks at how these new models perform in environmental terms, and whether Britain\u2019s electricity is clean enough to repay the carbon emissions released in making their huge batteries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This quarter, the Electric Insights website was upgraded to show the split between onshore and offshore wind. The UK has over 2,000 turbines installed out at sea, making it the world\u2019s leader in offshore wind. Article 4 shows how the country\u2019s wind industry has developed over the last 20 years, revealing that onshore wind is still the largest source of wind power. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Article 5 looks at the power system\u2019s statistics over the last quarter. Wholesale prices have fallen dramatically since the start of the year. Nuclear power fell to its lowest output in over a decade. And for the first time, coal has fallen to last place in the generation mix, producing less electricity than hydropower. Article 6 looks at the record highs and lows in the power system, 24 of which were broken over the last three months. In June, electricity demand fell to its lowest levels in 25 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Monthly average electricity demand<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Authors:<\/em> Dr Iain Staffell<\/a>, Professor Richard Green<\/a>, Dr Rob Gross<\/a> and Professor Tim Green<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dr Iain Staffell – Imperial College London This quarter\u2019s Electric Insights features two special reports on Britain\u2019s power system moving towards zero fossil fuels, and how this makes electric vehicles cleaner than ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-q2-2019"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/19Q2_1.1-1024x486.png\")
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