UK’s Renewables Output Hits Record, Helping to Blunt Iran Shock

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-25/uk-s-renewables-output-hits-record-helping-to-blunt-iran-shock

Posted by Electricbell20

15 Comments

  1. Imagine if we’d properly invested in nuclear as well. Imagine if we didn’t have 14 years of tories sucking the marrow out of our bones.

  2. Electricbell20 on

    >Solar generation reached roughly 10 gigawatts, just below a record set in July last year, while wind output climbed to almost 24 gigawatts, a new high.

    >The jump on Wednesday helped push power prices lower, with day-ahead contracts settling at £40.72 a megawatt-hour, the lowest since October.

  3. Wise_Old_Can on

    They can pass savings onto themselves and promote scary news for the reason energy prices still cost so much. Yay.

  4. nomanhasaplan on

    Meanwhile the yanks just paid a billion to the French to cancel their renewables

  5. Pristine-Bar2786 on

    Seems odd that the government in it’s infinite wisdom just said that a Chinese company can’t build a 1.5 billion pound wind turbine blade factory in Scotland. Gosh who needs the factories to build that advanced green tech inside the country.

  6. wookiecock69 on

    This needs to be stopped! These ugly wind turbines ruining the view when you can have a beautiful gas burning power station and watch the lovely clean smoke go off to help the trees.

  7. SmackedWithARuler on

    I wonder how many units of electricity the money ‘Baroness’ Mone got would buy.

  8. It’s fantastic no taking away from it but it doesn’t paint the whole picture this is just grid energy generation.

    A vast majority of houses still rely on combi boilers for hot water and central heating so the grid may not be feeling the pinch but we’re still heavily shackled to gas.

  9. shrunkenshrubbery on

    I am hoping that it becomes strategically prudent to improve domestic hydrocarbon free power generation and perhaps they speed-up the improvements to the grid so that more renewables can be added.