据MENAFN网站2020年1月6日伦敦报道，2010年，英国75%的电力来自煤炭和天然气。但到2020年，化石燃料发电量将仅占40%，英国的煤炭发电量已从2012年41%的峰值下降到了2019年的2%以下。

煤电(英国2010年第二大最普遍的能源)的消失，支撑了英国在过去10年里发电方式的显著转变，这意味着英国现在拥有有史以来最清洁的电力供应。

现在位居第二的是风电，它在2019年为英国提供了近21%的电力需求，比本世纪初的3%大幅上升。在本世纪初，天然气为英国提供的电力份额最大，但到2019年已从2010年的47%下降到了38%。

正如我们去年1月预测的那样，英国2019年煤炭发电的年度总量低于了太阳能发电，首次降至第七位。英国可再生能源去年8月份的发电总量也首次超过了煤炭和天然气一个月的发电量之和。

李峻 编译自 MENAFN

原文如下：

Britain's electricity since 2010: wind surges to second place, coal collapses and fossil fuel use nearly halves

In 2010, Great Britain generated 75% of its electricity from coal and natural gas. But by the end of the decade*, these fossil fuels accounted for just 40%, with coal generation collapsing from the decade's peak of 41% in 2012 to under 2% in 2019.

The near disappearance of coal power – the second most prevalent source in 2010 – underpinned a remarkable transformation of Britain's electricity generation over the last decade, meaning Britain now has the cleanest electrical supply it has ever had. Second place now belongs to wind power, which supplied almost 21% of the country's electrical demand in 2019, up from 3% at the start of the decade. As at the start of the decade, natural gas provided the largest share of Britain's electricity in 2019 at 38%, compared with 47% in 2010.

As we predicted last January, 2019 saw the annual total for coal generation drop below solar and into seventh place for the first time. Britain's renewables also generated more electricity than coal and natural gas combined over a month for the first ever time in August.