SCOTLAND generated enough electricity from renewable sources last year to meet the equivalent of 90.1% of its total electricity consumption, according to latest figures. In 2019, the country generated 30.5 TWh of electricity from renewable sources, 13.4% up on 2018, Scottish Government data showed. This was enough to charge almost 6.7 billion mobile phones for a year and boil around 700 billion kettles. The target is for 100% of the country’s electricity to be generated from renewable sources by 2020. The Annual Energy Statement 2020 said that Scotland’s heat demand is still primarily made up from fossil fuels but progress on renewables has been made, with the amount of renewable heat generated in 2019 up 4.8% on the previous year.
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Renewable sources generated enough electricity to meet 90% of total demand
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Scotland generated electricity from renewable sources last year to meet over 90% of the country’s total electricity consumption.
Output from renewable sources covered 90.1% of electricity consumption, the Scottish government said in its annual energy statement.
Overall, the amount of electricity, transport and heat energy produced in Scotland from green resources increased between 2017 and 2018 to 21.1%, it said.
Scottish Energy Minister Paul Wheelhouse
(pictured, right) said: “This year’s Energy Statement shows that we are continuing to make strong progress towards building a greener, fairer and more equal society and economy and to meeting our world leading climate change targets.
“In particular, we continue to make good progress in areas such as renewable electricity with, in 2019, Scotland’s renewable electricity generation having grown to such an extent that it was able to meet the equivalent of 90.1% of Scotland’s gross electricity consumption making 2019 ano