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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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Fossil fuels are losing ground to renewable energy in Europe

The Verge: Energy

Wind turbines and power lines can be seen against the evening sky near Leuna, Germany on October 4th, 2022. Photo by Jan Woitas/picture alliance via Getty Images The European Union saw a record drop in pollution from fossil fuel power plants last year, according to a new report. Electricity demand actually fell by 3.4

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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. Growing weather impacts on power systems highlight the importance of investing in electricity security. The update finds that world demand for electricity grew by 2.2% in 2023, less than the 2.4%

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Can Renewables Restart the Grid? The UK Investigates

GreenTechMedia

” Distributed ReStart was launched in January 2019 and is set to run to March 2022, with £10.3 National Grid is carrying out the project in partnership with the Iberdrola-owned electricity distributor SP Energy Networks and TNEI, an independent energy consultancy. million ($13.5 million) in backing from the U.K.’s

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IRENA: Renewables provided 80 per cent of new global power capacity in 2021

Business Green

It calculates that across all countries, renewable power grew by 9.1 per cent in 2021, bringing clean energy's share of global power capacity to 38 per cent. La Camera reiterated the point writing in this week's Renewable Capacity Statistics 2022 report from IRENA. climate goal," he writes.

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Clean energy technology supply chains must get better, faster, cleaner, says report

Envirotec Magazine

Manufacturing of cathode/anode materials, high-power grid transformers, vessels for offshore wind installations and sub-sea cable laying are highly specialised and difficult to scale. Most notable was the passage of the US Inflation Reduction Act in 2022 and the EU Green Deal Industrial Plan , announced in response.

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Rising battery storage costs: A long-term trend or short term blip?

Business Green

The price of battery energy storage systems rose for the first time since records began in 2022, as raw material and component costs soared, and developers and system integrators increased their margins in the face of challenging economic headwinds and soaring energy costs worldwide.