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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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Low carbon generation set to meet electricity demand growth – IEA

Smart Energy International

growth of 2022, attributing this to declines in advanced countries due to the lacklustre macroeconomic environment and high inflation. Nuclear power generation also is expected to reach an all-time high, with growth averaging close to 3% per year. The update finds that world demand for electricity grew by 2.2%

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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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Can the US Catch Up in the Green Hydrogen Economy?

GreenTechMedia

needs a massive green hydrogen industry to decarbonize its electricity, transportation and industrial sectors, and major investments and policy changes today to enable it to grow to its full potential in the decades to come. lags behind China, Japan and the European Union in infrastructure and research investments to reach this potential.

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

DeSmogBlog

Smith continued: “I’ll tell you what I know about batteries, because I talked to somebody who was thinking of investing in a 200-megawatt plant, $1 million to be able to get each megawatt stored. Nuclear is down 10-50 percent of the hours of the year for planned or unplanned maintenance,” said Jacobson.

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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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Global Briefing: Activists bemoan slow progress in UN ocean treaty talks

Business Green

Arlo Hemphill, senior oceans campaigner with Greenpeace USA, said failing to secure a treaty in 2022, or even delivering a weak treaty, would make it "practically impossible" to ensure 30 per cent of global oceans are protected by 2030. Reports: Germany looking to postpone looming closure of nuclear plants.