The latest polling from the Public Attitudes Tracker showed that 88% of people support the use a renewable energy in the UK – beating last year’s previous high of 84% – whilst only 2% oppose them.
The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) has estimated that the development of 45GW of onshore wind farms would take up 2.1% of the UK’s total land prompting calls to scale the renewable energy technology.
With the temperatures dipping, the last week has once again seen the Britain energy system become stretched. In this week’s Current± Price Watch series – powered by LCP Enact – we take a look at the price highs, the debate raging around onshore wind and the continued expansion of the Demand Flexibility Service.
Simon Clarke MP, the former Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, has received significant support for an amendment to lift the de facto ban on onshore wind farm developments dated 23 November.
In a bid to boost the UK's energy security and its own sustainability portfolio, SSE has revealed it has invested close to four times as much as it made in profits in the first half of its financial year totalling £1.7 billion.
