Most of the renewables we have came online in the last ten years and we would have come further but for Tory policy. We’re living now with a temporary hiatus caused by them. It’s estimated we need roughly three times the amount of wind and solar and, at that point, gas will only be used on those occasions we get a high pressure system stuck over the country. The good part is how quickly that growth can be built if we stay serious about it.

yes, that was what I thought was key about the graph - the progress over ten years in a hostile political environment....

The graph on the left here shows the actual composition of electricity generation over the last 28 days. The graph on the right shows the effect if we treble the available wind and solar and have Hinkley C online. In fact we get much of the benefit just by doubling the wind capacity. It took eight years to get from the first hour without coal to no coal at all. I’m looking forward to the first single hour without gas fired generation.

I'm looking forward to getting to no nuclear too, because creating utterly toxic waste, for our grandchildren's grandchildren so we can run our fridges, Tesla's and AI data centres, is the definition of... something or other.

@ChrisMayLA6

You’ll be pleased to know that nuclear has been in steady decline for many years. The main driver is the fact that many nuclear power stations have had to shut through old age. Even the ones still open are running at less than capacity because renewables drive down the need for their output. When Hinkley C comes online several more lifetime-expired sites will shut down. https://www.mygridgb.co.uk/historicaldata/