Britain’s energy system operator has predicted that this year’s Christmas Day could be the greenest yet. Last year, more than 40% of electricity generation on Christmas Day came from renewables.
If the weather remains mild and windy for the rest of December, the National Energy System Operator (Neso) has said it could record the lowest carbon intensity – the measure of how much carbon dioxide is released to produce electricity – recorded on the network for 25 December.
Craig Dyke, a director at Neso, said the electricity grid had run at a record peak of 97.7% zero carbon earlier this year, on 1 April.
