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Wind power dominates UK electricity generation

Recent data shows that wind power accounted for a significant portion of Britain's electricity generation, reaching 56% on Friday and 55.9% on Saturday

In the last couple of days, wind power has been a prominent force in Britain’s electricity generation.

That’s according to recent data released by the National Grid ESO, which shows on Friday, wind contributed 56% to the total electricity produced, with gas at 11.3%.

This trend continued on Saturday, with wind accounting for 55.9%, surpassing nuclear at 12.5% and gas at 12.4%.

The remaining electricity generation sources, excluding non-renewable distributed generation, included imports, biomass, hydro, solar, coal and other.

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