March 2022
Intermediate to advanced
358 pages
12h 35m
English
*Corresponding author: adam.stokes@ed.ac.uk
The United Kingdom (UK) generated 119.3TWh of renewable energy in 2019 an increase of 8.5% on 2018, meaning that 36.9% of the UK’s energy supply came from renewables. In the first quarter of 2020 alone, 47% of electricity generated came from renewables [1] and by 2050 the goal is for 100% of it to be from renewable sources. A recent analysis showed that the UK was placed to be able to deploy over 40GW of offshore wind generation by 2030 [2]. ...