Your Daily Dose of Climate Hope: April 29, 2025
The UK now gets over 50% of its electricity from renewables!
In 2024, clean renewable energy provided over 50% of all electricity generation in the United Kingdom.
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Reasons For Hope
Renewable energy provided 50.8% of all electricity generation across the United Kingdom in 2024, reaching more than half for the first time ever! Adding in nuclear, all forms of clean energy provided a record-high 65% of all UK electricity. This is an epic milestone! For context, the world ran on 40.9% renewables-plus-nuclear clean electricity worldwide in 2024, and the United States ran on 51% clean electricity in March 2025 — the UK is ahead of the curve.
In 2024, the UK’s electricity generation from fossil fuels (almost all fossil “natural” gas, whose expensive prices and fluctuating availability generally drive high electricity bills) fell by 16%. The UK’s grid has also been coal-free since Britain closed its last coal plant in September 2024. As a result, total UK greenhouse gas emissions continued to fall in 2024, down 4% from 2023 and 54% from 1990.
More recently, total solar deployment in the United Kingdom crossed the 18 GW (18,000 MW) mark in February 2025, as the renewables revolution continues to progress!
The UK’s progress is yet another manifest example that modern economies’ grids can run on majority-clean electrons. Everywhere in the world, market forces are trying to build more and more clean energy, and it’s getting cheaper and more reliable all the time as solar and battery technology keeps improving. U.S. state leaders looking to ensure clean energy abundance and healthier air for their constituents have a straightforward path to do so: support, incentivize, and streamline a fast and easy permitting process for new solar farms, wind farms, battery projects, and power transmission lines.
