Record amounts of clean electricity generated by wind power in 2014
THE RenewableUK group is highlighting new official statistics from National Grid which show record amounts of clean electricity were generated by wind power in 2014.
Wind generated enough electricity to supply the needs of more than 6.7 million UK households last year; a 15% increase on the amount generated in 2013 (up from 24.5 terawatt hours to 28.1TWh in 2014) – over 25% of all UK homes all year round.
Wind farms feeding into the grid as well as turbines connected to local networks provided 9.3% of the UK’s total electricity supply in 2014, up from 7.8% in 2013.
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