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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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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. The turbines are connected to the power grid and can generate electricity when the wind blows. As the Water Flows:  Water flow, such as in rivers, can produce electricity using hydropower.

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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

Dutch oil giant Shell, which is planning a gigawatt-scale, wind power-driven hydrogen cluster in the Netherlands, is also building hydrogen fueling stations in Los Angeles to serve these ports fuel cell vehicle’s needs, Wayne Leighty, the company’s hydrogen fuel business development manager, said.

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Biden’s proposed increase in solar power would remake the US electricity system

Renewable Energy World

million solar panels or 364 large-scale wind turbines. The rest would come mostly from a mix of other low- or zero-carbon sources, including wind, nuclear, hydropower, biopower, geothermal and combustion turbines run on zero-carbon synthetic fuels such as hydrogen. can generate at least some solar power year-round.

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Here’s how pumped hydro works as an energy storage resource

Renewable Energy World

is going to need a lot more solar and wind power generation, and lots of cheap energy storage. Wind and solar power vary over the course of a day, so energy storage is essential to provide a continuous flow of electricity. Two types of pumped-storage hydropower; one doesn’t require a river. To cut U.S.