ABSTRACT
By the end of 2018, decarbonisation efforts in Britain had resulted in a rapid reduction in coal use, falling electricity demand and growth in low-carbon renewable generators. Decarbonisation efforts have left the nation dependent on gas for over 40% of electricity and nearly all winter heat requirements. The country has to continue to diversify energy supplies in order to continue the decarbonisation journey and break the resilience on gas. The inconvenient truth in all decarbonisation strategies is the importance of people power. That is to say, that if humans are required to widely adopt the renewable technology, higher efficiency and lower carbon behaviours that are needed to decarbonise electricity, then it cannot be the acts of a handful of women or men that lead our transition.
