03-09-2020, 05:28 PM
Green electricity comes in various shades. All explained here: https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/home-en...lectricity
There's a lot of greenwash about.
Green gas is mostly a fiction. There's very little truly green gas on the network. I haven't found a figure but I'm pretty sure it's well under 10%. Unlike electricity where over 30% is currently coming from renewables and over half from low carbon (includes nuclear) and virtually none from coal. This is an annual average and it's only getting better. As we build more large scale wind projects whch are the main source of renewables in the UK we will need more storage but that's getting better too. This wikipedia article covers the field pretty well but I don't think it addresses the rapid rate at which grid scale storage is expanding. There's also distributed storage such as V2G which is set for rapid growth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-to-grid
Incidentally, a number of London bus routes are now all-electric with many more headed that way as existing buses reach the end of their service life.
Best I could find on green gas: https://www.greengas.org.uk/green-gas
There's a lot of greenwash about.
Green gas is mostly a fiction. There's very little truly green gas on the network. I haven't found a figure but I'm pretty sure it's well under 10%. Unlike electricity where over 30% is currently coming from renewables and over half from low carbon (includes nuclear) and virtually none from coal. This is an annual average and it's only getting better. As we build more large scale wind projects whch are the main source of renewables in the UK we will need more storage but that's getting better too. This wikipedia article covers the field pretty well but I don't think it addresses the rapid rate at which grid scale storage is expanding. There's also distributed storage such as V2G which is set for rapid growth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-to-grid
Incidentally, a number of London bus routes are now all-electric with many more headed that way as existing buses reach the end of their service life.
Best I could find on green gas: https://www.greengas.org.uk/green-gas
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