U.K. Renewable power mix on target for 2020 as new figures reveal real how far the country has progressed in its mission to combat climate change.
Recent figures released in a recent study by the Washington-based non-profit organisation, the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, revealed that the U.K. came number 1 in an energy efficiency league of 12 of the largest economies. Germany, Japan, Italy and France followed in the rankings along with Australia, China and the European Union as a whole (including Britain), who all tied for sixth. The U.S. was in at number 9, with the booby prize going to Brazil, Canada and Russia, who limped in at the end.
The nations were ranked by the council across 27 categories that covered buildings, transportation, industry and other areas of energy efficiency. The categories covered all other areas of the economy. Two such categories were “policy” metrics such as the presence of a national energy savings target and energy consumption and "performance” measures like energy consumption relative to economic output.
This comes after government figures were released which showed a record increase in the use of green energy. The figures revealed that renewable energy generated by sun, wind and waves accounted for 11 per cent of the U.K.’s energy mix in the first three months of 2012, compared with 7.7 per cent from January to march last year.
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