Renewables powered more than a quarter of demand between April and June, as shown in the figure below-left. Output from all low-carbon sources (including nuclear and imports from France) met 56% of demand over the quarter, a tenth higher than the previous high reported in our first issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Wind, solar, biomass and hydro peaked at a 51.5% share of demand on June 7th at 1 PM, with a combined output of 19.1 GW. At the same time, the output from all low-carbon sources hit a new record of 28.6 GW, meeting 89% of demand. The figure below-right shows the generation mix during that week: on the Sunday afternoon wind and solar each produced more electricity than all fossil fuels combined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For comparison, Germany hit a new record of 85% renewable electricity<\/a> for an hour in May, showing that we can go further still. With more than 6 GW of wind capacity currently under construction1<\/a><\/sup> and plans to convert more of Britain\u2019s coal units to biomass<\/a>2<\/a><\/sup>, it is likely these records will continue to be broken in the months to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Left: share of electricity generation from renewables averaged over each quarter<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Right: generation mix surrounding the weekend with the highest share of lowest-carbon electricity<\/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\n\n\n Clean electricity sources are once again breaking records in Britain. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-q2-2017"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","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=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1601,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/1601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/reports.electricinsights.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/02_Renewables_Low_Carbon_hit_new_highs-1-1024x472.png\")
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