Health - Medical and Nursing Management.Facility / Grounds Management and Maintenance. Misreading these figures hides the true size of the task ahead if we are to get anywhere near a net-zero, fossil-free energy future. It is the decarbonising of the other four fifths or more of our total national energy usage that is the problem, where the really big costs are coming and will have to be paid for by someone, somehow.Īll low-carbon renewables together (wind, solar, hydro and nuclear as well) already accounted for about half our electricity supply last year, which is good, except that this added up to only about 8.9 per cent of UK total energy consumption. The wind energy contribution that he describes as 27 per cent of the UK’s energy is in fact the wind percentage only of the UK’s present electricity sector – which, as the Office for National Statistics will confirm, last year amounted to no more than 19 per cent of the UK’s total energy usage. In an otherwise excellent article Andrew Marr’s energy statistics (Politics, 30 June) are unfortunately incorrect.
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