What is Renewable Energy?
Renewable energy can be seen as something that is used to generate electricity without the use of non-renewable energy sources and makes a net contribution of carbon monoxide in the atmosphere are defined. Types of renewable wind energy, tidal energy, solar energy, geothermal and biomass. Although nuclear energy with low carbon content, as it uses uranium fuel is ready, can not be considered renewable.
Advanced technologies:
The British government has committed to producing 15 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020 and has vast wind energy resources and the waves. The United Kingdom has achieved important milestones in the development and installation of more projects and in 2007 he had two gigawatts of wind turbines. The British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) said that it installed 9GW offshore wind turbines in 2015, producing more energy for the country of nuclear energy.
In addition, the Centre for Alternative Technology was able to wave energy at the end providing some 10 percent of the total energy demand of the United Kingdom. However, this technology is at a much earlier and have for the UK at the forefront of technological development has not yet been made commercially available designs.
Solar energy technology has been increasingly popular in recent years. These include photovoltaic systems, direct sunlight and heat energy from the sun to generate electricity. The most common applications of this are to provide water to heat in homes and generate small amounts of electricity for households, but the sunlight solar concentrating power plants, which rotates to generate hundreds of mirrors to superheat steam, the turbine around and creates power.
Geothermal energy is another important source of renewable heat is to improve access, which is naturally stored underground in the two pockets of steam or hot water. Methods for the utilization of natural energy require drilling deep into the earth, pumping water into the hole so that the breaking of rocks that have been through the ground to heat water to be pumped heated.
What happens now?
Currently, the United Kingdom only 1.8 percent of its energy from renewable sources, while the figures show the EU that the Scandinavian countries like Sweden, the share of renewable energies as high as 40 percent. However exceeded investment in green energy last year, that of fossil fuels. More than a third of the investment world was in the UK and Europe, while China and India has shown the strongest growth.
