BRITS have installed enough new renewables to cook three million Turkeys or 150,000 tonnes of Brussels sprouts this Christmas.

Another 95,000 solar panels and three offshore wind farms have boosted the UK’s homegrown renewable energy up to 53GW.

Across the UK, another 3GW of renewable energy has been brought onstream – enough to light five million Christmas trees for all month, or power for every single telly in the world to watch the King’s speech.

Around 40 per cent of all our energy now comes from renewables, with more wind farms to come online by the middle of the decade.

More renewable energy at home means less pricy imported oil and gas from abroad – and will starve Russia of desperately needed cash to fund their war efforts in Ukraine.

Rishi Sunak has vowed to rip up the ban on onshore wind next – if locals agree for a plant in their back gardens – in a further bid to drive down bills and stop relying on expensive overseas oil and gas.

He previously vowed to make it harder to green light more onshore wind farms, but was forced into a u-turn by backbenchers last month.

It means the defacto ban put in place by David Cameron in 2015 which made planning rules tighter, will finally be lifted.

And last month the new nuclear plant Sizewell C was finally signed off by ministers, with £700million of Government cash.

It is set to create 10,000 jobs and power up 6 million homes for more than 50 years.

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A Government insider said: “We certainly have not been Scrooges this year when it comes to rolling out renewable energy around the UK.

“While Jack Frost has been nipping at everyone’s nose, we’re keeping it lit with a secure, warm, affordable and uninterrupted supply of energy for British families.”

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