https://www.newpower.info/2022/03/a-national-effort-to-complete-renewables-and-transmission-projects-already-in-planning-is-needed/ Expert information for all those invested in the UK's energy future Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:08:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 https://www.newpower.info/2022/03/a-national-effort-to-complete-renewables-and-transmission-projects-already-in-planning-is-needed/#comment-91937 David Dundas Fri, 18 Mar 2022 13:45:28 +0000 http://www.newpower.info/?p=11261#comment-91937 There is no way that renewables can be increased enough over the next 29 years to meet the UK’s primary energy demand, presently around 2,000 TWh forecasted by the Future Energy Scenarios of the National Grid to fall to around 1,600 TWh by 2050, when you consider that non-fossil electricity production is presently only 200TWh which includes nuclear electricity of which most of our nuclear power stations will be retired by 2035. As a result we need more of every source of fossil-free power. In the meantime we have an energy crunch being heavily dependent on imported oil and gas, so increasing our own production of gas with fracking is a quick way to reduce our dependence on foreign energy as a short term measure while renewables and nuclear are ramped up.

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