Category: GB clean power
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GB renewables 2025
Renewable sources produced a record amount of electricity in Great Britain last year, Wind was the biggest renewable source of electricity; solar rose by nearly a third on 2024 levels, helped by the UK's sunniest year on record. Of course Nature doesn't care how much renewable energy we use, it cares about how much fossil fuel we use. Electricity Read more
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GB renewable energy projects 2025
A record number of renewable energy projects were given the go-ahead in GB in 2025, according Cornwall Insight. New battery, wind, and solar projects that received approval climbed to 45GW this year, 96% higher than in 2024. Applications to build new battery storage almost doubled to 28.6GW this year from 14.9GW in 2024; approvals for offshore wind Read more
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Solar backlash
Solar farms aren't always popular with the people that have to live next to them. The Guardian provided a long article about objections around my home town of Gainsborough - in some ways an ideal location for grid-scale renewables because they can connect to the grid at the site of the old Cottam power station. Read more
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Springwell solar farm
Government has approved the UK's largest power-producing solar farm after a planning inquiry. The Springwell Solar Farm, between Lincoln and Sleaford, will cover 1,280 hectares (which the BBC tells me is the area of 1,700 football pitches). Government approves UK's largest solar farm Stuart Harratt for BBC News, 8 April 2026 Originally posted by John Baxter in Read more
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Plug-in solar
May 2026: Plug-in solar panels should soon go on sale in the UK for around £500. They can produce about 10% of a typical household’s energy, depending on how they are positioned. If you are thinking of buying panels, there are practical considerations, and paperwork to be done. A lecturer in Mechanical & Energy Engineering Read more
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New record for GB solar
NESO announced a new record for UK solar generation: on 15th April 2026 it peaked at 14.414 GW. This is equivalent to 7 or 8 old coal-fired baseline power stations. Expect to see this record broken again and again through the summer. Chart from gridwatch (solar in yellow, wind light blue, gas light brown, nuclear Read more
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80% Carbon Neutral
At 4 pm on the afternoon of Good Friday 2026 gas is generating less than 5% of GB electricity. Read more
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New GB Wind Record
A new record for electricity generated from wind in GB, 22.711 GW on 11 November 2025. Read more
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New GB Wind Records
New wind records twice in December 2024 Read more