LONDON – The UK is on track to meet its 2020 renewable energy targets after low-carbon electricity generation grew more than a quarter in the year to end-June 2012, thanks largely to new solar and offshore wind projects, a government report said. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) said renewable energy accounted for over 10 percent of total electricity supplied in the 12 months to end-June. Renewable power output grew 27 percent from July 2011, according to the UK's latest Renewable Energy Roadmap status report released on Thursday. “Renewable energy is increasingly powering the UK's grid, and the economy too,” Energy Secretary Edward Davey, who heads DECC, said in a statement that accompanied the report. “It's a fantastic achievement that more than 10 percent of our power now comes from renewables, given the point from which we started,” he said. – Reuters
