New statistics released today by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero confirm that renewables generated a record annual amount of electricity in 2022, outstripping fossil fuels for a second year. Onshore and offshore wind also generated their highest annual volumes of electricity ever.

Renewables provided 41.5{7bfcd0aebedba9ec56d5615176ab7cebc5409dfb82345290162ba6c44abf8bc8} of the UK’s electricity last year (135.0 terawatt hours), compared to 40.8{7bfcd0aebedba9ec56d5615176ab7cebc5409dfb82345290162ba6c44abf8bc8} from fossil fuels (132.8TWh). This beats the previous record for the amount of electricity generated by renewables (134.3TWh) set in 2020, when renewables outperformed fossil fuels for the first time.

The Digest of UK Energy Statistics states that the increase is due to high output from wind and solar generators, substantial increases in wind generation capacity and…
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