Vattenfall Networks has indicated that under proposed reforms for grid connectivity, demand will outpace required network upgrades to facilitate new technologies.
Renewables accounted for 40% of the UK’s electricity generation in 2021, according to new figures from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s (BEIS) Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES).
2020 saw the largest annual decline in primary energy consumption since 1945, with a drop of 4.5%, according to BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy 2021.