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    'A huge milestone for Britain': Renewables provided half of the UK's electricity in 2024
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    ‘A huge milestone for Britain’: Renewables provided half of the UK’s electricity in 2024

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    1. YsoL8 on

      What was that about renewables being unreliable?

      Something something you never knew what the hell you were talking about?

    2. Prudent-Pool5474 on

      A really cool stat but that’s all it is, what does it mean for the average person, nothing, nothing when bills are still sky high and utilities rocketing.

      Nothing but a cool headline and that’s it.

    3. initiali5ed on

      Great start, once it’s close to 100% it will start encouraging electrification of industries that use more expensive, less efficient energy sources.

    4. SevenNites on

      A another huge milestones to consider:

      >Highest industrial energy cost in the world.

      >3rd highest domestic energy cost in Europe.

      This will encourage people to use less energy therefore it’s good for fighting the climate change to save the planet, higher energy cost is feature not a bug.

    7. Weird-Statistician on

      Unlink the electricity price from gas and pass these savings on to consumers. Watch investment and support for renewables go through the roof.

    8. PixelBurst on

      What a huge milestone for the energy companies, they must be thrilled to further minimise spending while they maximise profit gouging us all!

    9. MCDCFC on

      Let’s all gather round and celebrate the highest Energy Costs in the World while acknowledging that, on a Global Scale it makes little or no contribution to stopping Global Warming

    10. eruditezero on

      Intermittent pap. Need to sack this nonsense off and go all in on nuclear, 8-10 new build sites across the country should eaily cover it, plenty of options.

    11. weeman3333 on

      Pity the UK don’t actually own any of it and we’re actually subsidising other nations bills and pensions while our own bills are extortionate so please spare us the sensational headlines🙄

    12. appletinicyclone on

      I feel like if someone were digging deep into this it probably isn’t the case.

      Like they mean half the domestic households but not commercial buildings or something.

    13. lhrbos on

      Britain has amongst the highest electricity costs in the world because of renewables. It’s killing industry.

    14. xParesh on

      Electricty not energy. We’re still dependent on fossil fuels for much of our lives and industry.

    15. messiah-of-cheese on

      As Trump said, wind turbine blades don’t spin forever (or even a particularly long time) therefore not renewable.

    16. Sad_Sash on

      I hope we ADD to this, this little island can’t be beholden to the energy exports of bad actors.

    17. B1ueRogue on

      Uh ho something to celebrate…im not sure the UK remembers how to not celebrate without ruining or fine dining something to complain about …I. sure its labours fault what ever it is.

    18. killmetruck on

      Great, now build more nuclear at the same time so we can actually have some long term investment that will help us be less dependent on foreign countries.

    19. Bartellomio on

      So we’re getting more and more energy from renewable, which means energy should become cheaper and cheaper, right?

    20. DynamicCast on

      Germany is burning coal. 

      We should at least be using the gas in the north sea to bring down prices. We have some of the most expensive electricity in Europe.