{"id":133406,"date":"2022-01-01T00:22:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T08:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/scotland-missed-100-clean-electricity-consumption-in-2020"},"modified":"2022-01-01T00:22:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T08:22:22","slug":"scotland-missed-100-clean-electricity-consumption-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/scotland-missed-100-clean-electricity-consumption-in-2020","title":{"rendered":"Scotland missed 100% clean electricity consumption in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scotland-missed-100-clean-electricity-consumption-in-20202.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2011, Scotland set a target of reaching 100% clean electricity consumption in 2020. And last year, the country almost reached its target \u2013 98.6% of gross electricity consumption came from renewable sources, according to the Scottish government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/binaries\/content\/documents\/govscot\/publications\/statistics\/2018\/10\/quarterly-energy-statistics-bulletins\/documents\/energy-statistics-summary---december-2021\/energy-statistics-summary---december-2021\/govscot%3Adocument\/Scotland%2BEnergy%2BStats%2BQ3%2B2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">December energy statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching, so it\u2019s important to shop for the best quotes. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/understandsolarenergy.com\/whysolar3\/?lsid=511&s1={s1}\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to learn more and get your quotes<\/a>. \u2014 *ad<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland, which is working to achieve net zero by 2045 \u2013 a legally binding target \u2013 has one of the most ambitious climate targets in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2011, Scotland set a target of reaching 100% clean electricity consumption in 2020. And last year, the country almost reached its target \u2013 98.6% of gross electricity consumption came from renewable sources, according to the Scottish government\u2019s December energy statement. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1490,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-government","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}