Notes

“Heat generation” excludes electricity used for heat, which is covered under “electricity generation”. The baseline is 2010 because it marks the start of a decade of accelerated growth in renewables across electricity, heat and transport, particularly with the large-scale expansion of solar PV and wind power.

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