{"id":7739,"date":"2017-09-29T18:25:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T17:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7739"},"modified":"2017-09-29T18:25:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T17:25:25","slug":"one-thing-learnt-week-uk-grid-cleanest-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7739","title":{"rendered":"One thing we have learnt this week &#8211; UK grid is the cleanest ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/1024px-Flat_Holm_PV_solar_array_near_Farmhouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5690\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/1024px-Flat_Holm_PV_solar_array_near_Farmhouse-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"1024px-Flat_Holm_PV_solar_array_near_Farmhouse\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/1024px-Flat_Holm_PV_solar_array_near_Farmhouse-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/1024px-Flat_Holm_PV_solar_array_near_Farmhouse.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>UK grid is the cleanest ever.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/media.nationalgrid.com\/press-releases\/uk-press-releases\/corporate-news\/national-grid-confirms-summer-2017-as-greenest-ever-and-launches-world-s-first-green-energy-forecast\/\" target=\"_blank\">news this week<\/a>.\u00a0 Thanks to massive amounts of new renewable energy this summer&#8217;s electricity had the lowest carbon intensity ever.\u00a0 Records continue to be broken.\u00a0 On May 31st solar power reached an all time record briefly overtaking nuclear.\u00a0 On the 7th of June renewable power provided over 50% of electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Since then we have reached new lows for the price generated by offshore wind and the first subsidy free solar farm.\u00a0 This latter project uses battery storage to become viable now all subsidies have stopped for such projects.\u00a0 (Note new solar on rooftops gets about 5p\/unit with the export tariff thrown in).\u00a0 This is competitive with wholesale price of electricity.\u00a0 Nor are National Grid having problems so far integrating so much renewable power into the grid.\u00a0 The issue is more of a problem at the local distribution level with ban in some parts of the country in getting new small scale generation connected.<\/p>\n<p>Other news this week suggests greenhouse gas emissions are stalling for the third year on a row suggesting that global emissions may have peaked.\u00a0 Caution is required since these figures do not include agriculture and forestry.\u00a0 These two are are huge emitters, but again thanks to renewables the trajectory is in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the UK grid is the cleanest ever is great news.\u00a0\u00a0 We really are on the brink of something big.<\/p>\n<p>Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK grid is the cleanest ever.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the news this week.\u00a0 Thanks to massive amounts of new renewable energy this summer&#8217;s electricity had the lowest carbon intensity ever.\u00a0 Records continue to be broken.\u00a0 On May 31st solar power reached an &hellip; 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