There’s something big happening in the UK. Al Gore and several business leaders grilled the country this week for cutting subsidies to solar and wind energy, but new government statistics show that Britain is already changing the way it produces electricity. For the first time in history, renewable energy surpassed coal in supplying electricity for a whole quarter. Wind power increased by 65% and solar power more than doubled in the past year alone, making renewable energy account for 25% of the UK’s total energy supply. There’s still a long way to go for renewable energy to surpass nuclear and gas-fired power and cutting subsidies might hinder the process, but the good news is that the statistics show the world that a rapid transition towards sustainability is completely possible.
This article was originally published on September 25, 2015
