Renewable energy in the United Kingdom

Renewable energy in the United Kingdom refers to energy from renewable sources used for electricity generation, heat and transport in the United Kingdom. In 2024, renewables accounted for 50.4% of UK electricity generation and 16.2% of gross final energy consumption.

Renewable electricity is dominated by wind, with generation from bioenergy, solar power and hydroelectricity contributing less. Renewable heat comes mainly from biomass and heat pumps, and renewable transport energy is supplied mainly through biofuels, with a smaller contribution from renewable electricity used in transport.

Support for renewable electricity has shifted from the Renewables Obligation and Feed-in Tariffs to auctioned Contracts for Difference (CfD) for new large-scale generation and the Smart Export Guarantee for small generators. Renewable transport fuels are supplied under the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation. Distributed generation is dominated by small-scale solar photovoltaics, and community energy is supported through national and devolved programmes. Costs include technology costs and CfD strike prices, and the network, connection and balancing costs of integrating variable renewables.

% shareYear010203040506020102012201420162018202020222024Onshore windOffshore windShoreline wave / tidalSolar photovoltaicsHydroBioenergy and wasteUK percentage share of electricity generated...
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.