About 15% of the UK’s electricity comes from wind
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Claim: A quarter of the energy we use in Britain today comes from wind.
Conclusion: That’s a snapshot picture when wind is generating an unusually high amount of electricity. Over the course of a year, about 15% of the UK’s electricity comes from wind power.
‘And a quarter of the energy we are using in Britain today has come from wind.’ Owen Smith MP, 1 March 2018
At the time of writing, wind power is currently generating about a quarter of the UK’s electricity, about the same as gas. That’s according to live data taken from the National Grid and electricity administrators Elexon. That includes both on- and offshore wind generation.
But that’s unusually high, because of the recent weather. The amount of electricity generated from wind is volatile.
Wind generated something like 15% of the UK’s electricity generation in 2017, and 13% using the latest official figures for the 12 months up to September last year. Gas remains the single biggest source of electricity by far.
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