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Britain's power grid celebrates greenest day and month on record in 2022

Business Green

In November, thanks to windy conditions, the country also generated more than 20GW of power from wind turbines for the first time ever, representing more than 70 per cent of all electricity generated on that day in Britain, it said. Nuclear power plants, meanwhile, provided 15.5 per cent, National Grid ESO's data shows.

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Media brief: The impact of clean stimulus measures on the U.S. economy following the 2008 downturn

Clean Energy Canada

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, introduced in early 2009, increased GDP 2% to 3% above what it would have been and supported over 6 million job-years (a full-time job for one year) from 2009 to 2012. including California and Texas, solar and wind power is cheaper than natural gas and coal. In many parts of the U.S.,

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'Slight tension': From coal mines to nuclear, new Business Secretary hints at delicate decisions at heart of UK's net zero ambitions

Business Green

In a wide-ranging appearance before the BEIS Committee, Kwarteng also defended the government's support for nuclear power, reiterating hopes that Hinkley Point C would come online by 2025 and act as a forerunner for another major nuclear project, as well as a fleet of small modular rectors developed in future.

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'This is not a bus plan': Wrightbus' Jo Bamford's vision for catalysing the UK's hydrogen economy

Business Green

The bus manufacturer, best known for producing the hybrid 'Boris buses' launched across the capital in 2012, was in some ways familiar territory to Bamford, anyway. An order of 3,000 buses, which is roughly 10 per cent of the UK's operational bus fleet, creates demand and volume, he says.

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Every region of the country is taking climate action. Here’s how.

Grist

The report notes that the cost of solar energy has fallen 90 percent in the last decade, and the cost of wind power has dropped 70 percent. West Virginia Large and deadly storms, like Superstorm Sandy in 2012, have hastened efforts to bolster infrastructure in the Northeast in preparation for the more severe impacts of climate change.

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Cascadia is known for strong climate action. So why are emissions still rising?

Grist

When InvestigateWest launched the Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia series in January 2021, the latest official data showed that emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases had risen steadily from 2012 to 2018, and the region wasn’t on track to make big cuts this decade. “We Ensuring a cleaner and reliable grid.

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‘This is punitive’: Kansas Senate committee considers poison pill wind energy bills

Renewable Energy World

The University of Iowa’s College of Public Health, Iowa Policy Project and the Iowa Environmental Council reviewed several pieces of research and found the consensus was there was little scientific evidence to support the idea that wind energy poses a threat to human health.

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