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  THE GREENENERGY WEBSITE 

  http://www.nef.org.uk/greenenergy/index.htm

  Did you know.? At present over 2% of electricity produced in the UK comes from a renewable source. By the year 2010 the Government's target is to exceed 10%. Various predictions suggest we will achieve ... 50% by the year 2050. Some renewable energy sources rely on the availability of natural occurring energy. These include heat or light from the sun; wind at a suitable speed produced from complex weather systems; waves from oceans, and tides based on the relative position of the sun and earth. These cannot be turned on or off according to demand for energy; they are therefore said to suffer from intermittency. Although a degree of back-up is required to cope with intermittency, a report prepared for the Carbon Trust in 2006 identified that intermittency should not be a major problem in the UK over the next 20 years. Please follow this link for more details on intermittency . To download our education factsheets on the different renewable energy, please visit our education website at ww   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 25 September 2007, by: Simon Lande  [Report as spam]

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  Tags:  energy, renewables, solar, hydropower, environment , hydropwer, nuclear power   [More...] [Less...]