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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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Solar to make up half of new generating capacity in 2022

Renewable Energy World

Energy Information Administration (EIA) says nearly half of planned capacity additions in 2022 will be solar energy resources. power grid this year. The agency says another 5% of the country’s planned electric capacity additions in 2022 will come from two new reactors at the Vogtle nuclear power plant in Georgia.

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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% Have you read?

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ComEd Bribery Scandal Clouds Picture for Exelon’s Illinois Nuclear Plants

GreenTechMedia

” At the same time, Crane noted the company is “in the middle of trying to work through legislative strategy in Illinois” that would offer its nuclear power plants in the state an alternative path to earning capacity market revenue that is seen as a critical component of their future financial viability.

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Canadian LNG Will Stall Asia’s Shift to Renewables, Energy Experts in Asia Say

DeSmogBlog

That’s because current market dynamics in the country “motivate the fossil fuel generators to continuously construct new plants and delay the phaseout of those that contribute little to the power grid,” Gyuri Cho of Solutions for Our Climate said last year. This could have dire health impacts.

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Looming Grid Shortfall Prompts 2.5GW California Procurement Proposal

GreenTechMedia

Thursday’s proposed decision from the California Public Utilities Commission ( PDF ) is the culmination of more than a year of study and debate over the state’s grid reliability needs, as part of its Integrated Resource Plan proceeding. But the CPUC deferred to the urgency of CAISO, which projects shortfalls of at least 2.3

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10 largest solar projects completed in the U.S. so far in 2021

Renewable Energy World

The project has a 30-year Power Purchase Agreement in place with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District and was built on the site of a decommissioned nuclear power plant. Typically, the second and third quarters are the slowest for solar power capacity additions. power grids," the researchers wrote.