The UK has made good progress with renewables, but measuring from a peak 1970 the overwhelming majority of that is going to be down to the move away from coal.

The UK has made good progress with renewables, but measuring from a peak 1970 the overwhelming majority of that is going to be down to the move away from coal. In 1970, most power generation and home heating used coal. Even cooking used coal gas. Oil and gas were found in the North Sea in the 1970s, the coal industry was killed by Thatcher in the 1980s and the privatised energy companies moved most power generation to gas during the 90s. The biggest remaining coal-fired power station (Drax) was converted to biomass in the past decade.