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Wind and Solar Energy Take the Lead Over Hydropower

R-Squared Energy

Previous topics covered were: Global carbon dioxide emissions Overall highlights Oil production and consumption Natural gas production and consumption Coal production and consumption Global nuclear power trends Today, I will cover renewable energy in detail. Global Renewable Energy Consumption 1965-2022. exajoules, up 0.7%

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

Business Green

More than half of the UK's electricity came from zero carbon sources across five months last year, as Britain celebrated a flurry of fresh green grid records in 2022, according to National Grid ESO. Favourable conditions then saw that record once again broken by the year-end, with 20.918GW of wind power generated on 30 December.

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IEA: CO2 from global power generation set to plateau

Business Green

Renewable power sources are expected to dominate almost all the growth in the world's electricity supplies through to 2025, according to the IEA, and together with nuclear power they are set to meet the vast majority of the increase in global power demand over the period. remains a hugely challenging prospect.

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Alberta Premier’s Statements on Batteries ‘Ideologically Motivated,’ Inaccurate, Experts Say

DeSmogBlog

There are five countries in the world that run on 100 percent wind-water-solar (WWS) alone with zero batteries, zero nuclear, and zero fossil fuels. She never met a fossil fuel lobbyist she didn’t love.” ”She We have no excuse not to transition – it’s a greed thing,” said Power. 100 percent WWS,” he said.

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Con Edison Contracts Its Biggest Battery to Date in New York City

GreenTechMedia

Under the contract announced Wednesday , developer 174 Power Global will build the battery system, and Con Edison will bid its power into New York wholesale energy markets for seven years after it starts operations in 2022. After that, 174 Power will take over the battery system’s operations and wholesale market value.

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'Time is not on our side': How worsening climate impacts pose major threat to global energy security

Business Green

The UN agency warned that water stress could jeopardise low carbon energy sources such as nuclear power plants and hydropower, both of which rely heavily on water supplies in order to operate, while rising sea levels and extreme weather are also posing a growing threat to energy infrastructure.

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'This is a natural gas market crisis': Why energy markets could be set for three more years of turmoil

Business Green

It argued that investments in renewables, energy efficiency, and smart grid solutions should be at the heart of any response to the crisis, noting how these green investments will enable nations to drastically reduce their reliance on polluting and volatile fossil fuel markets.