The UK is falling behind in its green energy targets. Gordon Brown has said that "the 2% of our total energy that now comes from renewables is much less than in many other European countries" (Nov 2007).

By 2020, 20% of all energy from the EU must come from renewable sources. This is a tough target that the Tyne Renewable Energy Plant will help achieve. When it is built in 2012, Tyne REP alone will account for 5.5% of the UK's renewable electricity target.

 

National Grid has forecast that without a significant number of new power stations, the UK could face an energy shortage as early as 2015, due to the planned closure of old power stations.

By building a large renewable energy plant to supply electricity, we will reduce the amount of fossil fuelled electricity that will be constructed. And help keep the lights on.

economist

"Britain... ...is heading towards South African-style power cuts, with homes and factories plunged intermittently into third-world darkness."
The Economist

"North Sea gas has served Britain well, but supply peaked in 1999. Since then the flow has fallen by half; by 2015 it will have dropped by two-thirds. By 2015 four of Britain's ten nuclear stations will have shut and no new ones could be ready for years after that. As for coal, it is fiendishly dirty: Britain will be breaking just about every green promise it has ever made if it is using anything like as much as it does today."
The Economist

"This will be the UK's largest, non gas-fuelled, base-load, power station built since Sizewell B in 1995" -
Ben Elsworth, Director, MGT Power

 


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