The UK's rollout of wind and solar power over the last decade has made its electricity supply "more British", with significantly less reliance on imported gas, analysis has found.Last year, just under half of Britain's electricity supply was powered by foreign energy imports, said researchers at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), down from 65% in 2014.The figures come as energy security is increasingly in the spotlight in the UK, after the bills crisis in 2022 and 2023 caused prima

The UK's rollout of wind and solar power over the last decade has made its electricity supply "more British", with significantly less reliance on imported gas, analysis has found.Last year, just under half of Britain's electricity supply was powered by foreign energy imports, said researchers at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), down from 65% in 2014.The figures come as energy security is increasingly in the spotlight in the UK, after the bills crisis in 2022 and 2023 caused primarily by spiking international gas prices after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Experts say if the UK had been less reliant on imported energy, prices would not have jumped as high.