In Britain a new record monthly 11% share of the UK’s electricity for wind was set in February, National Grid figures showed – enough to power more than 6.5 million homes.
The UK wind fleet produced 2.7 terawatt hours in February, helping to push the source past the previous record set in December 2013 of a 10% share.
Industry body Renewable UK’s deputy chief executive Maf Smith hailed the new record, and said that harnessing wind was “vital” to Britain becoming “less reliant on expensive imported energy from volatile international energy markets”.
