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WanderingEng · 3124 days ago · link · · parent · post: For six months until September in U.K., more electricity came from sunlight than coal-fired power stations
- Solar panels generated more electricity than coal in the past six months in a historic year for getting energy from the sun
I didn't see it as historic. Solar's contribution is still negligible.
- The figures represent a dramatic turnaround in the UK’s electricity supplies.
No, they don't, for the reasons I laid out.
- “Solar overtaking coal this summer would have been largely unthinkable five years ago.
But the uptick was gas, not solar, that caused coal to decline.
Notably: England became the industrial powerhouse it was because of all the available coal within its shores. A third of its natural gas, on the other hand, is Russian.