Solar Installation!

[wfdTamar]

Ah, that good old Victorian over engineering. They don’t make ’em to last forever nowadays.

I guess it depends where you get your stats and what period you use. The page below shows 36.3% renewables for 3rd quarter of 2022. Wind 17%, bio energy nearly 12% (though I did see something about a bio energy power station buying wood chips from Canada that weren’t as sustainably harvested as they make out they are).

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1126334/Energy_Trends_December_2022.pdf

 

[L' Hobo]

did see something about a bio energy power station buying wood chips from Canada that weren’t as sustainably harvested as they make out they are).

Cutting down good mature forest (and replacing it with sapling that will take another 40yrs to replace the carbon capture of the mature trees) in North Western Canada, chipping it, and then shipping it 6,000miles ( 1/4 way around the World) by ship and train before throwing it into the furnaces at Drax (according to BBC Panorama a few months ago and costing the Tax Payer Millions of pounds from the Government 'Sustainable' Fund)

Would HAVE to be thought of as UNsustainable, I would have thought?

 

[Freo]

Just my opinion, but it seems to me that for as long as global oil and gas companies continue to have UK governments (Tory or Labour) under their massive influence and control, then wave power technology will be starved of the investment that it needs to become a viable reality.