Windy weather carries Britain to renewable energy record

Storm Diana brought travel chaos to road. rail and airports. but the clouds did have a silver lining: the strong winds helped set a renewable energy record.

Windfarms supplied about a third of the UK’s electricity between 6pm and 6.30pm on Wednesday. a time of peak energy demand. Output hit a high of 14.9GW. beating a previous record of 14.5GW.

The milestone coincides with the official opening on Friday of E.ON’s Rampion windfarm off the coast near Brighton. which is the first in the Channel and can power about 350.000 homes.

Blustery weather has buoyed wind output in the past few days. with National Grid reporting thousands of wind turbines were the UK’s No 1 source of power across Wednesday and Thursday. at about 32% of generation. Gas power stations are usually top.

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