UK sets new record for wind power generation

Turbines at the Burbo Bank offshore windfarm at the mouth of the river Mersey in north-west England. Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images

Britain has set a new record for wind generation as power from onshore and offshore turbines helped boost clean energy supplies late last year.

National Grid’s electricity system operator (ESO), which handles Great Britain’s grid, said that a new record for wind generation was set on 30 December, when 20.91 gigawatts (GW) were produced by turbines.