The London Underground could soon be entirely powered by renewable energy.
The move is part of a plan to make the city’s famous rail network zero-emissions by 2030, and have the entire city become carbon neutral by 2050.
Transport for London (TfL) is London’s biggest electricity consumer, and one of the largest consumers in the UK. It uses 1.6TWh every year, the same as 437,000 average homes.
The Tube alone consumes 1.2TWh every year and that is without any of the buses, trams and overground trains that make up the network.
A recent study by British Business Energy calculated that 200 wind turbines or 5.6 million solar panels would be needed to power the network completely on renewables for one year. That many solar panels would take up the same amount of space as the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea - Link
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