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Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine

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Show HN: An interactive map showing live wind farm generation in Great Britain

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The UK is wasting a lot of wind power

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GB National Grid Status

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Why is hydroelectricity unfashionable?

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UK power station owner cuts down primary forests in Canada

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Increased wind turbine rotor blade visibility to reduce avian fatalities

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A near 100% renewables grid is well within reach, and with little storage

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Researchers: World can reach 100% renewable energy system by/before 2050

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A new method boosts wind farms’ energy output, without new equipment

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UK-Morocco 10GW Renewable Electricity Interconnector Planned

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California grid set record of 97% renewable power on April 3

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Electricity map: Mapping the climate impact of electricity

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The world’s biggest offshore wind farm, Hornsea 2, generates first power

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The booming business of knitting together the world’s electricity grids

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Coal replaces wind as most important energy source in Germany in H1

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World's biggest wind turbine shows the disproportionate power of scale

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Live electricity production/consumption CO2 map

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Floating wind turbines could rise to great heights

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Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 Days

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Vertical turbines are more efficient in large-scale wind farms: study

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'World’s most powerful' tidal turbine sets sail from Dundee

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Equivalent of 97% of Scotland’s 2020 electricity consumption was from renewables

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Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via subsea cable

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Three-dimensional model of electricity consumption in Manchester (1954)

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Dogger Bank's giant turbines herald a wind of change in UK industry

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Tasmania declares itself 100 per cent powered by renewable electricity

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Policy, not tech, spurred Danish dominance in wind energy

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Everything you need to know about windsocks

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Is wind power’s future in deep water?

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Increasing wind turbine rotor blade visibility reduces avian fatalities

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How much power can we expect from rainfall?

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Scotland to use 100% renewables on time to host 2020 climate summit

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Study Finds Wind Speeds Are Increasing, Which Could Boost Wind Energy

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German solar and wind are triple the cost of French nuclear, last half as long

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Duck Curve

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The largest offshore wind farm is nearly complete, can power 1M homes

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Shipping wind turbines is not a breeze

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Reinventing the Small Wind Turbine

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Scotland to House Largest Tidal Turbine

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Australia has enough solar, wind storage in pipeline to go 100% renewables

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Machine learning can boost the value of wind energy

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A Massive Battery that Can Store Solar and Wind Energy

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How Windmills as Wide as Jumbo Jets Are Making Clean Energy Mainstream

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Portugal electricity generation temporarily reaches 100% renewable

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Scotland’s floating wind farm is showing how powerful offshore wind can be

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How to Get Wyoming Wind to California, and Cut 80% of U.S. Carbon Emissions

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Wind energy used to mine cryptocurrency to fund climate research

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Texas Is Too Windy and Sunny for Old Energy Companies to Make Money

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DeepMind in “very early stage” talks with National Grid to reduce UK energy use

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For the First Time, Wind on the Plains Supplied More Than Half Region's Power

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China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea Plan Renewable Energy Super Grid

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Portugal runs for four days on renewable energy alone

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Why nuclear energy is our best option at the moment

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Denmark’s wind farms generated 140% of the country’s electricity needs yesterday

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Denmark: 1,000 Megawatts Of Offshore Wind, And No Signs of Slowing Down

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Wiring a Generator to Your House

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Wind Map

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Renewables now account for 25% of German energy production

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Wind Map

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Wattvision (YC W09) Now Shipping

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Can solar and wind power Britain? An update of David MacKay's numbers

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Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row

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'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months

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UK announces commercial operations of longest land/subsea interconnector

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New UK record for wind power set today – 21.81 GW between 0900-0930 GMT

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GE Vernova announces order of 674 wind turbines, providing 2.4 GW of power

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Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling

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As solar capacity grows, duck curves are getting deeper in California

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28-ton, 1.2-megawatt tidal kite is now exporting power to the grid

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California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days

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Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years, new study shows

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