It’s good news but the hype is nonsensical. Domestic energy generation has shifted a lot but the primary driver of lower emissions is exporting our manufacturing jobs. And now they’re polishing their halos while wagging their fingers at China.
The UK economy gradually shifted from a carbon-intensive manufacturing-based economy to a less carbon-intensive services economy after-1986. The gap between the consumption-based and territorial-based emissions started to widen. By 2007, the consumption-based CO2 emissions reached their peak and were 37% higher than the territorial CO2 emissions. This implies that the absolute decoupling of gross domestic product (GDP) from territorial CO2 emissions in 1986 was not solely because of policy impacts, but also because of the outsourcing of the production of manufactured goods to developing countries.
Slight exaggeration but most of the renewable power the UK has is wind. Solar kind sucks as the UK is just so far north (but when solar is high wind tends to be low which is convient). So before I make a claim about wind power I actually looked it up. From this article it seems wind power tends to peak around 5pm which is pretty perfect for demand.
I’m a little confused by what you are asking though. You got some concern?
Probably one of those people who pretend that energy storage doesn’t exist in an effort to discredit wind and solar as “only working when it’s windy/the sun is shining” or some such nonsense.
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