“The fit between renewable energy and electric is a natural [one],” he argued. E.ON, one of the big-six energy suppliers, agrees: its dedicated new electric car tariff is supplied with 100% renewable power. WindNearly a third of the UK’s electricity between April and June was generated from renewable sources – a new record, and up a quarter on the same period last year. For one brief period on a Friday in May, solar even eclipsed the UK’s eight nuclear power stations for electricity generation. EDF, which is building Britain’s first new nuclear station in decades at Hinkley Point in Somerset, thinks that by 2035, nuclear’s share should grow to around a third of UK power supply.

Source: The Guardian October 07, 2017 15:00 UTC