One of those good news things. you remember those? key point that's not super clear in this graph is that total usage went down over 100 TeraWatt Hours; a staggering efficiency improvement alongside the growth in wind & solar https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1326182349365776384

so while natural gas has grown as a proportion of energy, actually we use less in total.

Source http://www.mygridgb.co.uk/historicaldata/ 

In 2020 UK put less than half the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere from electricity generation than it did in 2016, despite using electricity for more stuff (i.e. some cars & buses use it instead of petrol, some houses use it for heating instead of gas).

That's pretty cool.

and a lot of the ways we're generating electricity now have positive externalities. Wind farms in the sea (where vast majority of UK ones are) act like reefs, creating habitat for sealife. It makes trawling impossible so the seabed can replenish slow growing sponges & corals

solar will never be as big as wind in the UK for obvious reasons, but the fact that massive solar farms can power 60,000 homes while sheep graze underneath is pretty cool https://www.thisiseco.co.uk/news_and_blog/ecos-solar-farm-is-now-biggest-in-the-uk.html

no, none of it's perfect and it could go faster and yes I know the lithium in the batteries, all the issues with solar panels using up rare minerals and producing waste. but still.