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   Emeritus Prof Christopher May (chrismayla6@zirk.us)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 17:56:38 JST Emeritus Prof Christopher May

   The UK's pivot from fossil fuels to renewables over the last ten years has now reached the point where this year we will be (regularly) using renewables more than fossil fuels for electricity generation.... it may still leave too much reliance on fossil fuels, but the trend, if slower than one might like, remains encouraging (as does the lack of an expansion of nuclear).

   #electricity #renewableEnergy #climate

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     Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ (christineburns@mastodon.green)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 17:56:34 JST Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

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     @ChrisMayLA6 I love this representation of how our electricity has become cleaner since 2009, week by week. Renewables really started to make a mark in 2016 as a number of projects came online in quick succession because of the pipeline established by Labour and the coalition. But notice a new change in the middle months of this year too. The first part of the Dogger Bank project comes online in 2025 so I expect further progress soon.

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     Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ (christineburns@mastodon.green)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 17:56:35 JST Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

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     @ChrisMayLA6 The graph on the left here shows the actual composition of electricity generation over the last 28 days. The graph on the right shows the effect if we treble the available wind and solar and have Hinkley C online. In fact we get much of the benefit just by doubling the wind capacity. It took eight years to get from the first hour without coal to no coal at all. I’m looking forward to the first single hour without gas fired generation.

     Eric Ireland repeated this.
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     Emeritus Prof Christopher May (chrismayla6@zirk.us)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 17:56:36 JST Emeritus Prof Christopher May

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     • Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

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     yes, that was what I thought was key about the graph - the progress over ten years in a hostile political environment....

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     Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ (christineburns@mastodon.green)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 17:56:37 JST Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

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     @ChrisMayLA6 Most of the renewables we have came online in the last ten years and we would have come further but for Tory policy. We’re living now with a temporary hiatus caused by them. It’s estimated we need roughly three times the amount of wind and solar and, at that point, gas will only be used on those occasions we get a high pressure system stuck over the country. The good part is how quickly that growth can be built if we stay serious about it.