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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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EIA: Renewables will make up 23% of U.S. electric power generation next year

Renewable Energy World

Electric power generated from renewable energy sources in the U.S. will rise to nearly 23% in 2022, according to short-term guidance released Tuesday by the U.S. Renewables – including wind, hydroelectric, solar, biomass, and geothermal energy – became the second-most prevalent U.S. GW of new wind capacity in 2020, +17.6

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U.S. wind generation sets new daily and hourly records at end of 2020

Renewable Energy World

On average, EIA estimates that wind accounted for 9% of U.S. Wind-powered electricity has increased in the United States as more wind turbines have been installed in recent years. Strong wind conditions in November and December, especially in the central United States , led to more output from wind turbines.

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Statkraft to build first windfarms in Chile

Renewable Energy World

In total, the windfarms are expected to produce more than 300 GWh of energy annually, which Statkraft says is enough to power 100,000 households. More Statkraft news Statkraft signs Spanish solar PPA Statkraft and ABB to deliver Liverpool grid stability project Statkraft poised to start 519MW wind park in Brazil.

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Renewables became second-most prevalent U.S. electricity source in 2020, per EIA

Renewable Energy World

The specific contribution from hydropower was not listed. Based on forecasts in its Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), EIA expects coal-fired electricity generation in all sectors in 2021 to increase 18% from 2020 levels before falling 2% in 2022. renewable generation across all sectors to increase 7% in 2021 and 10% in 2022.

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Renewable Energy Grew At A Blistering Pace In 2021

R-Squared Energy

Note: The is the sixth article in a series on BP’s recently-released BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2022. Previous articles were: Wind And Solar Provided A Record 10% Of The World’s Power Generation In 2021. Global hydropower consumption in 2021 was 40.3 exajoules, which is still more than wind and solar.

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Avangrid Withdraws Guidance on Coronavirus, Vineyard Wind Uncertainty

GreenTechMedia

gigawatt onshore wind power fleet. In a Wednesday conference call, CEO James Torgerson credited the improved performance to better wind production from its huge base of existing U.S. renewables capacity, including 831 megawatts of onshore wind built last year by its Oregon-based Avangrid Renewables subsidiary.