Renewable electricity to overtake fossil fuels in UK this year

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Renewable energy from wind, solar and hydropower will account for more of the UK's electricity output this year than fossil fuels for the first time, according to think-tank Ember.
58% : The green trio will account for about 37 per cent of the electricity generated this year, overtaking 35 per cent from fossil fuels, according to the study that includes production data and forecasts for the remainder of the year.
50% : The findings classify nuclear power, which accounts for about 15 per cent of generation, separately, while some earlier studies that claimed UK renewables had overtaken fossil fuels included biomass, a process of burning wood pellets that produces carbon emissions.
43% : The think-tank believes just 0.9 per cent of this year's generation came from coal, 3.26 per cent came other fossil fuels such as waste or oil, 5.3 per cent from solar and 14.2 per cent from bioenergy.

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