Dr. Mark Barrett at UCL has done work that suggests that coupled with a grid connection with France and beefed up energy storage, Britain could provide 95% of its electricity from renewables this way.
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Dr. Mark Barrett has documents online for those curious to read more:
http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/markbarrett/Energy/UKEnergy/EnergyUK.htm
Posted by: Daniel Haran on June 22, 2009 8:33 PM
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