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The United Kingdom is increasing its use of low-carbon energy sources as it moves to phase out coal-fired power plants altogether by 2025.

 

Renewable-energy sources such as wind and solar, combined with nuclear power and generating plants fired with renewable wood pellets, are displacing fossil fuels in the country's electricity-generation mix.

 

This combination of alternatives energy sources allowed the U.K. to hit a significant milestone in 2016.

Between July and September, half of the country's electricity was generated by wind and solar farms, and wood and nuclear power plants, according to figures released by the U.K. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy in late December.

 

The increase in low-carbon electricity generation was driven primarily by new wind and solar installations, and the decommissioning of several major coal-fired power plants, reports The Guardian.

 

Scotland's last coal power plant closed in Spring 2016, and two large coal plants in England shut down as well.

Source: greencarreports