{"id":158596,"date":"2020-08-31T01:01:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T23:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/08\/31\/uk-carbon-emissions-from-electricity-hit-record-low-in-lockdown-report\/"},"modified":"2020-08-31T01:01:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T23:01:51","slug":"uk-carbon-emissions-from-electricity-hit-record-low-in-lockdown-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=158596","title":{"rendered":"UK carbon emissions from electricity hit record low in lockdown \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity demand fell by 13% in second quarter which helped renewables grow to 40% of energy mixCarbon emissions from Britain\u2019s electricity system plunged by more than a third during the coronavirus lockdown after renewable energy played its largest ever role helping to keep the lights on, according to a report.During the spring bank holiday weekend in May, the energy grid\u2019s carbon intensity reached a record low of 21 grams of CO2 per kilowatt-hour due to a slump in energy demand triggered by Britain\u2019s lockdown measures and a surge in renewable energy. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/aug\/31\/uk-carbon-emissions-from-electricity-hit-record-low-in-lockdown-report\" target=\"_blank\">UK carbon emissions from electricity hit record low in lockdown \u2013 report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity demand fell by 13% in second quarter which helped renewables grow to 40% of energy mixCarbon emissions from Britain\u2019s electricity system plunged by more than a third during the coronavirus lockdown after renewable energy played its largest ever role helping to keep the lights on, according to a report.During [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}