UK domestic emissions fall 3.6% as renewables take record generation share

26th March 2020 | Residential Energy

The UK’s domestic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions underwent a 3.6% year-on-year fall in 2019 – during which time renewable energy rose to a record 36.9% share of electricity generation. That is according to the latest UK energy statistics and provisional GHG emissions figures, published 26 March by the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy…Read more

UK renewables bask in record 2019

26th March 2020 | Commercial Energy

Renewable energy generated a record 37% of the UK’s electricity demand in 2019, with wind contributing more than half of the amount, according to new statistics released by the UK government. The annual figures, published in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s quarterly Energy Trends report, reveal wind provided a record 20% of…Read more

UK’s carbon footprint 21% below peak levels, latest Government figures show

23rd March 2020 | Commercial Energy

The UK’s total carbon footprint – a term used to cover consumption-related emissions wherever in the world they occur – fell by 21% between 2007 and 2017, new Government data has revealed. Publishes late on Thursday (19 March) by the Department for Food, the Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra), the Government’s latest carbon footprint report…Read more

Electric cars have lower carbon output in 95 per cent of the world, study finds

23rd March 2020 | Commercial Energy

Concerns that electric cars could actually worsen carbon emissions are not true in nearly all parts of the world, according to a study from the University of Exeter. While electric cars represent a pollution-free form of transport on a local level, the carbon cost of the electricity used to power them also has to be…Read more

UK’s carbon footprint 21% below peak levels, latest Government figures show

20th March 2020 | Commercial Energy

The UK’s total carbon footprint – a term used to cover consumption-related emissions wherever in the world they occur – fell by 21% between 2007 and 2017, new Government data has revealed. Publishes late on Thursday (19 March) by the Department for Food, the Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra), the Government’s latest carbon footprint report…Read more

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