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Renewable energy provides record percentage

4C Offshore | Lewis Holdsworth
By: Lewis Holdsworth 26/03/2015 RenewableUK
RenewableUK welcomed official Government statistics today which showed that renewable electricity provided a record percentage of supply in the last quarter of 2014, reaching 22%.

Onshore and offshore wind combined provided the biggest share of renewable electricity, at just under 12% of the total electricity generated.

The statistics also confirmed that renewable electricity provided a record percentage of power in 2014, at 19.2%. Onshore and offshore wind made up nearly 50% of this total, with both seeing increases in the amount of power generated compared to 2013. The amount of onshore wind generated increased by 7.9% in 2014, and the amount of offshore wind was up 16.1%.

RenewableUK Deputy Chief Executive Maf Smith
commented:
“It’s wonderful to see renewable electricity reach another record of 22% of electricity generated and to see wind providing the lion’s share of that. Communities up and down the country benefit from wind power via the 34500 people employed in the sector, and local benefits and contracts, and these statistics show it’s doing its primary job of providing clean homegrown power and weaning us off fossil fuel imports.


"Onshore and offshore wind is a UK success story, and as the General Election approaches, politicians should recognise its value, and support it fully”.

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