UK hits it's own record, but is smashed by Germany's

The UK hit a new record recently as sunny weather boosts solar power generation, providing estimated 7.8% of UK electricity in daylight hours of solstice! This is good news for the UK as year ago it was producing half that total, but thanks to the increase in domestic installations we are hitting it home with that 7.8% with 4.7 gigawatts.

Photo Credit: Steve Jurvetson

Why is solar taking off? 

The main reason for the big increase in domestic installations is the RHI (Renewable Heat Incentive) ran by the government letting you sell back the remainder of your free solar generated energy to the grid earning you up to £750 a year!

Solar power is all the rage right now with multiple projects getting into solar. Most recently are the solar roadways, although it had major flaws it still got $2million worth of funding, thats how excited people are about solar energy! Even this years world cup (2014) is powered by solar panels round the stadiums which produces more solar power than 11 of the 32 competing countries!

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It's not good enough

Sadly, the UK are far behind when it comes to solar power, especially when compared to Germany. They generated over 50% of their electricity demand from solar for the first time ever on 9 June (Maybe that's whats powering their team in the World Cup?) This is an outstanding achievement, giant leap forward for solar power indeed! A measly 7.8% seems an age away, but  Ray Noble, a consultant at the UK National Solar Centre says "We think that this is likely to double again within a year. There is nothing to stop it getting to 30-40% of UK electricity at this time of year," which is hopeful to say the least, but I too am hopeful as a part of the UK, England; may not of been able to beat Germany in the World Cup, but we sure can rival them with solar power if we stick at it!

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I bid you adieu my dear Sirs and Madams!

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