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0 pointsdata_maan3y ago0 comments

You say "better" but you're not giving a comparison.

The UK doesn't appear anywhere in the ranking on the Wikipedia link of countries with >90% electricity from renewables.

You're last link also pertains to electricity only BTW (you make it sound like all energy is considered) and the UK aims for 2025 to have "periods" of fossil-free electricity generation, while other countries do that already today and not just for "periods".

I'm sorry, but the UK sucks.

My only consolation to you is that a number of other western countries also suck.

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Reason0773y ago

It's not valid to compare the UK to various small countries that have always had renewables in the form of large hydroelectric systems, which the UK's geography simply doesn't have.

My point is that, in the past decade, the UK has transitioned to renewables faster than any other major industrialised nation.

As recently as 2012, nearly 45% of UK electricity still came from coal. This has been cut to around 1% in 2022, and all remaining coal-fired power stations will be closed completely by 2025.

Obviously there is still much more to do, but the UK compares favourably here to, for example, the USA or Germany.

makomk3y ago

Countries with >90% of electricity from renewables are, almost universally, ones which have unusually good geography for hydropower combined a low enough population and energy demand that this meets their needs. This is not something that the UK or most of the world can replicate.

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