Published
March 27, 2014

Green energy ‘achieves record year’

Scotland generated a record amount of electricity from green energy sources last year, according to new figures.

Renewable power projects produced a total of just over 17,000 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity in 2013, a rise of 16.4% on the previous year.

That means about 46.5% of Scotland’s energy needs came from sources such as wind or hydro power.

The data was released by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).

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