And within ten years it will be over 100% as most buildings
still have not got them. Goodbye fossil fuels
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/11716782/Sunny-weather-sees-solar-power-supply-record-amount-of-UKs-electricity-demand.html
Sunny weather sees solar power supply record amount of UK's
electricity demand - Telegraph
Solar power has supplied 16 per cent of the UK's electricity demand on
Friday afternoon thanks to the sunny weather, the industry estimates.
Believed to be a record amount, the news comes ahead of "solar
independence day" on Saturday.
Solar-powered homes, commercial rooftop schemes and solar farms are
all opening to the public to mark the occasion.
And in what is shaping up to be a big day for the clean technology,
the "solar schools" project run by climate change charity 10:10 is
celebrating the 1,000th solar panel installed on a school roof to save
money and carbon, and solar-powered planeSolar Impulse is set to land
in Hawaii after a record-breaking flight
The solar industry has set out how it believes the Government can
double the amount of solar and make it as cheap as fossil fuel
electricity by 2020.
An ambitious programme to deliver two million homes with solar power,
24,000 commercial rooftops and 2,000 solar farms by 2020 and providing
56,900 jobs would cost around �3.35 (just $20)on the average consumer
energy bill by the end of the decade.
Today's UK's solar power output is likely to be a record, but it is
dwarfed by Germany's solar performance, where estimates suggest a huge
25 gigawatts of power were being generated by solar photovoltaic (PV)
panels this afternoon.
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