{"id":272257,"date":"2025-11-19T20:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/272257\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T20:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:36:11","slug":"new-record-for-wind-powered-electricity-in-britain-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/272257\/","title":{"rendered":"New record for wind-powered electricity in Britain | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new wind record has been set for Britain, with enough electricity generated from turbines to power 22 million homes, the system operator has said.<\/p>\n

The mark of 22,711 megawatts (MW) was set at 7.30pm on 11 November, beating the previous high for wind power generation of 22,253 MW set on 18 December last year.<\/p>\n

At the time, wind was providing 43.6% of Britain’s electricity, enough to keep around three-quarters of British homes powered, the National Energy System Operator (Neso) said.<\/p>\n

The country had experienced windy conditions, particularly in the north of England and Scotland.<\/p>\n

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Neso said gas at the time was providing 12.5% of generation, while 12.1% came from “embedded wind”, which supplies power directly to local distribution networks rather than the high-voltage transmission network.<\/p>\n

Also, 11.3% came from interconnectors with other countries, 8% from nuclear, 8% from biomass, 1.4% from hydro, and 1.1% from storage.<\/p>\n

Neso has predicted that Britain could hit another milestone in the months ahead by running the electricity grid for a period entirely with zero carbon power, renewables and nuclear.<\/p>\n

Kayte O’Neill, chief operating officer at Neso, said the record showed that “our national grid can run safely and securely on large quantities of renewables generated right here in Britain”.<\/p>\n

She went on to say: “I look forward to seeing if we can hit another clean energy milestone in the months ahead: running Britain’s electricity grid entirely zero carbon.”<\/p>\n

Neso said wind power is now the largest source of electricity generation for the UK, and the government wants to generate almost all of the UK’s electricity from low-carbon sources by 2030.<\/p>\n

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Industry body RenewableUK’s deputy chief executive, Jane Cooper, urged the government to go further by increasing the amount of capacity they will support in the next round of auctions.<\/p>\n

This is where contracts are handed out for new wind farms to receive an agreed price for the power they generate.<\/p>\n

Government support is seen as crucial in auctions as it sets the maximum price generators can receive for electricity, which can determine the commercial feasibility<\/a> of projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new wind record has been set for Britain, with enough electricity generated from turbines to power 22…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-272257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}