Belfast Telegraph: Increases in the number of offshore and onshore wind turbines, along with high winds, boosted wind power, while a doubling of average rainfall on the previous year in areas that have hydropower saw electricity from the technology hit record levels.
The increase in renewables, coupled with a fall in the amount of electricity generated overall in the first quarter of 2014, led to wind, hydro, solar, wave, tidal and biomass power plants generating a record 19.4% of the UK's electricity during the...