by Rebecca Walker — August 6, 2010—An annual study of the country’s renewable energy sourcing finds that wind power is leading the surge as it generates an increasing share of U.K. electricity.
Energy statistics published by the Department of Environment and Climate Change as part of The Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES) 2010 show the amount of energy put into the grid by the country’s wind farms last year hit 2.5 percent of Britain’s total.
That is a 31 percent increase on the previous year, against a more modest increase of 20 percent for renewable energy sources as a whole.
Maria McCaffery chief executive of trade association RenewableUK welcomed the figures but urged government to set tougher targets. “These are promising statistics but we must go further and act faster,” she said. “With one third of our power supply needing to be replaced by 2015 we cannot delay in greater deployment of clean energy technologies.”
