According to the latest Electric Insights report by Drax, the UK wind power boasts 29GW of installed capacity: its wind capacity has become the biggest power station type.
These results let Britain to be one of the five countries leading in wind capacity: for more than a century, fossil fuels were dominant in Britain’s electricity system, but wind power has now surpassed them. Gas was Britain’s largest power source for a decade, and it was preceded by coal since the Victorian Era. Nevertheless, coal’s capacity dwindled over the last ten years, dropping from 28GW to just 2GW, while wind capacity tripled over the past decade.
Nowadays Britain’s wind capacity is equally divided between onshore (14.1GW) and offshore (13.8GW) farms, with a great number of investments coming from pension funds and institutional investors.
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