{"id":76987,"date":"2018-03-17T20:42:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T03:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/uk-sets-new-wind-power-record-as-turbines-deliver-14-gigawatts-for-first-time-37-per-cent-of-nations-electricity"},"modified":"2018-03-17T20:42:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T03:42:43","slug":"uk-sets-new-wind-power-record-as-turbines-deliver-14-gigawatts-for-first-time-37-per-cent-of-nations-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/uk-sets-new-wind-power-record-as-turbines-deliver-14-gigawatts-for-first-time-37-per-cent-of-nations-electricity","title":{"rendered":"UK sets new wind power record as turbines deliver 14 gigawatts for first time \u2013 37 per cent of nation\u2019s electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uk-sets-new-wind-power-record-as-turbines-deliver-14-gigawatts-for-first-time-37-per-cent-of-nations-electricity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wind power in the UK set a new record today by generating 14 gigawatts for the first time \u2013 nearly 37 per cent of the country\u2019s electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The National Grid control room confirmed that 13.9 gigawatts was the highest ever metered wind output.<\/p>\n<p>It was responding to a tweet by \u201cwind-loving Walthamstow mum\u201d Sarah Merrick, who said: \u201cThink this might be a new wind record\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/wind-power-record-electricity-gigawatt-output-national-grid-a8260836.html\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/wind-power-re...60836.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wind power in the UK set a new record today by generating 14 gigawatts for the first time \u2013 nearly 37 per cent of the country\u2019s electricity. The National Grid control room confirmed that 13.9 gigawatts was the highest ever metered wind output. It was responding to a tweet by \u201cwind-loving Walthamstow mum\u201d Sarah Merrick, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76987","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}