UK renewable energy capacity surpasses fossil fuels for first time
by Adam Vaughan from on (#42BNY)
Renewable capacity has tripled in past five years, even faster growth than the 'dash for gas' of the 1990s
The capacity of renewable energy has overtaken that of fossil fuels in the UK for the first time, in a milestone that experts said would have been unthinkable a few years ago.
In the past five years, the amount of renewable capacity has tripled while fossil fuels' has fallen by one-third, as power stations reached the end of their life or became uneconomic.
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