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Kenya Moves Forward With Plans for Country’s First Nuclear Power Plant

POWER Magazine

Officials with Kenya’s Nuclear Power and Energy Agency (NuPEA) said the country is on track to start construction on its first nuclear power plant by 2027. The group at a […] The post Kenya Moves Forward With Plans for Country’s First Nuclear Power Plant appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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SUN DAY Campaign - Solar Generating Capacity Now Exceeds Nuclear Power & Hydropower While Its Electrical Output Expanded by >20% in January

Global Renewable News

HIGHLIGHTS LATEST FERC AND EIA REPORTS SHOW SOLAR OFF TO A STRONG START IN 2024 INSTALLED SOLAR CAPACITY NOW EXCEEDS NUCLEAR POWER AS WELL AS HYDROPOWER SOLAR ELECTRICAL OUTPUT GREW 20.5%

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Wind and Solar Energy Take the Lead Over Hydropower

R-Squared Energy

Previous topics covered were: Global carbon dioxide emissions Overall highlights Oil production and consumption Natural gas production and consumption Coal production and consumption Global nuclear power trends Today, I will cover renewable energy in detail. Global hydropower consumption in 2022 was 40.7 exajoules, up 0.7%

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SUN DAY Campaign - Solar Surpasses Wind & Takes the Lead Among Renewable Sources of Electrical Generation as Utility-Scale Solar Expands by 35%`

Global Renewable News

HIGHLIGHTS SOLAR AND WIND EACH SURPASSED HYDROPOWER WHILE THE OUTPUT BY WIND + SOLAR WAS GREATER THAN COAL AND NEARLY EQUAL NUCLEAR POWER ELECTRICAL GENERATON BY THE MIX OF ALL RENEWABLES INCR.

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Renewables Catching Nuclear Power In Global Energy Race

R-Squared Energy

The former consists of hydropower, which has been around for a long time. Hydropower still produces more electricity globally than the Renewables category, which consists primarily of rapidly-growing wind and solar power, as well as more mature renewable technologies like geothermal power and power produced from biomass.

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Renewables account for 20% of U.S. electricity generation through Q3 2021

Renewable Energy World

Washington DC — Driven by strong solar and wind power growth, electrical generation by renewable energy sources (i.e., also including biomass, geothermal, hydropower) accounted for 20.45% of total U.S. Reflecting worsening drought conditions, though, hydropower fell by 12.47%. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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Renewable Energy Reaches New Heights

R-Squared Energy

In previous articles, I discussed: Overall highlights Trends in global carbon dioxide emissions Global production and consumption of petroleum Global production and consumption of natural gas Global production and consumption of coal Trends in nuclear power Today I will discuss renewable energy, with a focus on the growth of wind and solar power.