Scotland’s Green Energy makes Enough Electricity 1st Quarter to power 88% of Households
In the first three
months of 2019, Scotland
produced 17 percent more electricity from renewables
than in the same
quarter a year earlier. Driven mainly by
onshore wind, Scotland’s burgeoning green energy sector keeps breaking records,
making enough electricity the first quarter of this year to provide 88% of the
country’s households with electricity for a whole year.
In the past year,
Scotland added just about a gigawatt of green energy, bringing the country
total up to 11.3 gigawatts. One of four countries in the United Kingdom,
Scotland’s population is only about 5.5 million. But in the UK as a whole, no
one has gone in for renewables as the Scottish have. Its electricity production
in this area is so extensive and inexpensive that Scotland has been exporting
electricity to 70 other countries, including England.
Wind energy is
intermittent, blowing hard at one time and barely turning the turbines at
another. Some of this challenge can be smoothed out by
new high density electric grids, in which Scotland is investing
billions...
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In the quest to go green, Scotland is way ahead of the rest of the UK, with
nearly all electricity produced by wind power.
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