UK Electricity Cleanest 2024
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Analysis: UK’s electricity was cleanest ever in 2024 - Carbon Brief
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Fossil fuels made up just 29% of the UK ’s electricity in 2024 the lowest level on record.
Each unit of electricity generated in 2024 was associated with an average of just 124 g of CO2, compared with 419gCO2 per kilowatt hour ( kWh ) in 2014 .
Renewable sources more than doubled from 65TWh in 2014 to 143TWh ( 122% ) in 2024 .
Fossil-fired power generation in the UK has fallen by more than half in the past decade .
Coal power has been phasing out and gas has also seen significant reductions in the amount of electricity generated by fossil fuels.
Combined electricity generation from wind, biomass, solar and hydro has more than doubled from 65TWh in 2014 to 143TWh ( 122% ) in 2024 .
In 2014 , a household with average demand would have been responsible for 1.1tCO2 from its electricity use.
Today , that figure has fallen to 0.3 t CO2.
For a house with a heat pump, emissions from home heating will have fallen from 1.4 tCO2 in 2014 to just 0.4tco2 in 2024 .
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