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What happens after your country runs on 99 percent renewable electricity?

The Verge: Energy

Climate change poses new risks to the power grid, and Costa Rica has a lot of work left to do to get more solar and wind farms online. In the winter, like a six-month period from June to December, many of the hydropower plants get surplus flows. That’s when we have low wind, but we have more hydropower.

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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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Smart Wires Looks to Ease Transmission Grid’s Mounting Challenges with Digital Controls

GreenTechMedia

Smart Wires is one of a handful of companies developing digital power flow control systems that could revolutionize how power grids function, compared to the mostly electromechanical system in place today. EirGrid’s transmission networks are struggling to integrate that power efficiently, O’Sullivan said.

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Largest PV investments in Poland and Ukraine

Renewable Energy World

Eastern European countries differ strongly in their current share of RES in total electricity production (with a record 65% share in Romania, Latvia, and Croatia, which rely heavily on hydropower). bsk Wind Farm by Electrum, which is the largest Polenergia wind farm, and one of the largest in Poland, also deserves special attention.