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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. Indeed, gas power continued to play a major role on Britain's grid last year, providing 38.5

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Industrial Revolution: Green Energy Solutions for the Modern Industries

Hydrogen Fuel News

Green energy solutions such as solar and wind power can power modern industries. These technologies can create a more sustainable future, and their use should be encouraged to protect the environment. These technologies can create a more sustainable future, and their use should be encouraged to protect the environment. 

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

Business Green

Clean energy now comprises 38 per cent of global power capacity after another record year of additions driven largely by wind and solar, latest figures reveal. 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.

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Dominion Targets 24GW of Renewables and Storage in Move Toward Virginia’s Clean Energy Goals

GreenTechMedia

Dominion’s new IRP is driven by Virginia's Clean Economy Act passed earlier this year, which calls for 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2045 and sets targets for energy efficiency, energy storage, and in-state solar and wind power. Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co.

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Can the US Catch Up in the Green Hydrogen Economy?

GreenTechMedia

But it highlights the need for capital to build the hydrogen production and transport infrastructure to carry it to end users, incentives to stimulate private-sector investment, codes and standards to regulate a growing supply chain, and research into still-nascent technologies.

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Largest PV investments in Poland and Ukraine

Renewable Energy World

The development of RES technologies is seen not only as a possibility to improve widely understood welfare of citizens, but also as real economic and business opportunities. bsk Wind Farm by Electrum, which is the largest Polenergia wind farm, and one of the largest in Poland, also deserves special attention. European ambitions.

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

Business Green

But batteries undeniably remain the most common form of energy storage and are widely regarded as a critical component of the net zero transition and an enabler of both vehicle electrification and cleaner, more efficient grids dominated by intermittent solar and wind power.