Now this auction round, known as Contracts for Difference AR7, has secured a record capacity of 8. 4GW of offshore wind which will generate enough clean electricity to power the equivalent of 12 million homes. . Britain has taken a monumental step towards ending the country's reliance on volatile fossil fuels and lowering bills for good, by delivering a record-breaking offshore wind result in its latest renewables auction. The results deliver the biggest single procurement of offshore wind energy in. . We need to build three times more offshore wind capacity in five years than in the last 20 – but there are levers to make it happen To hit the UK government's official target of decarbonising electricity generation by 2030, the country needs to roughly double onshore wind power capacity to 35GW. . In densely populated regions such as western Europe,India,eastern China,and western United States,most grid-boxes contain solar and wind resources apt for interconnection (Supplementary Fig. Nevertheless,these regions exhibit modest power generation potential,typically not exceeding 1. 9% of English land is used for mining and quarrying. 2 Including the spacing between towers, turbines would be spread over ~5% of British land (on le ocated more than 25 miles from shore, with no impact on seascapes. Here,we demonstrate the potentialof a globally interconnected solar-wind system to meet future electricity ources on Earth vastly surpasses. .
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