Great Britain began it's new path to energy independence and alternative energy long ago. This report is from 2011.

The nations of the United Kingdom (click here) are endowed with vast and varied renewable energy resources. We have the best wind, wave and tidal resources in Europe.

The UK leads the world in offshore wind, with more than 700 turbines already installed, and is accelerating the deployment of onshore wind with the biggest projects in Europe already operating and under construction in Scotland and Wales. Taken together onshore and offshore wind provide enough power for more than two and a half million homes. But we could do so much more. Our challenge is to bring costs down and deployment up.

This document – the UK’s first Renewable Energy Roadmap – sets out our shared approach to unlocking our renewable energy potential.

This UK Roadmap builds on the actions already underway: financial support mechanisms for renewables, the Green Investment Bank to help companies secure investment in green infrastructure, and encouraging the development of new offshore wind manufacturing facilities at port sites.

The Government’s Electricity Market Reform White Paper, published alongside this Roadmap, sets out our reforms to the separate Great Britain and Northern Ireland markets for all forms of electricity generation. Reform will ensure that low-carbon electricity from a diverse range of sources - not just renewables - becomes a more attractive choice for investors, delivering long-term change while minimising cost to the consumer....

The evidence of the demand for clean power in Great Britain is everywhere. This report is from 2017 and show high demand for alternative energies. Coal has basically been removed from use in Great Britain.

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Chart 6.1: Demand for renewable energy by end use (click here): 6.6 In 2017, 66 per cent of renewable energy demand was accounted for by bioenergy with wind accounting for 21 per cent. Chart 6.2 shows a comparison for the key renewables sources....

...6.9 Total renewable capacity increased between 2016 and 2017 by 14 per cent. Most of the increase in both capacity is due to increased wind capacity, accounting for 75 per cent of the increase in capacity.

6.10 In 2017, onshore wind regained the highest share of capacity and it also held the highest share of generation (at 31.7 per cent and 29 per cent respectively).

6.11 The main use of renewable energy is to generate electricity. In 2017, electricity generated from renewables increased by 19 per cent on 2016, from 83.1 TWh to 99.3 TWh.

6. 12 Renewable sources provided 29.3 per cent of the electricity generated in the UK in 2017 compared to 24.5 per cent in 2016, an increase of 4.8 percentage points (measured using the “international basis”, i.e. electricity generated from all renewables except non-biodegradable wastes as a percentage of all electricity generated in the UK).

6.13 Taken together, onshore and offshore wind represented 79 per cent of the total increase in generation; onshore wind increased by 8.2 TWh (39 per cent) and offshore by 4.5 TWh (27 per cent). This was due to a combination of increased capacity and unusually high wind speeds. The third and fourth largest increases in generation (in absolute terms) were plant biomass (1.2 TWh) and solar photovoltaic (1.1 TWh). Landfill gas generation fell by 0.4 TWh, (8.9 per cent) to 4.3 TWh and cofiring with fossil fuels also fell by 54 per cent....