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There was no coal production between 10.25pm on Monday,16th April and 5.20am today

This breaks a record set earlier in March when wind supplied 29.1% of the nation’s power with 13.8GW

  The world’s oceans rose to the highest temperatures on record in 2017. Chinese experts found the upper 2,000m of ocean water were far more warmer last year than the previous hottest year in 2015. The Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IAP CAS) said in comparison, total electricity generation in […]

A record 5.5 million customers switched electricity supplier in 2017. That’s according to the latest figures from Energy UK, which show this is a 15% increase on the 4,822,885 switches that took place the year before. More than 400,000 customers changed supplier in December alone and through the year, competition has intensified, with 28% of […]

The past year has been the UK’s greenest on record, in terms of how much of the country’s power comes from clean sources. That’s according to the latest statistics from National Grid, which shows renewable technologies and low carbon innovations have helped break a number of energy records. For the first time, June saw wind, […]

A solar energy provider says it has set a new world record for thin-film cell efficiency. In joint research with Japan’s National Research and Development Agency’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Solar Frontier K.K. achieved a 22.9% conversion efficiency rate using its CIS (copper, indium and selenium) technology. It claims this result […]

A tidal stream power plant off the coast of Scotland has set a world record for monthly energy production. Phase 1A of marine developer Atlantis’ MeyGen project in the Pentland Firth produced more than 700MWh of clean electricity in August. The facility’s total production since launch is now approaching 2GWh. It will soon enter into […]

The US solar market saw record smashing growth of 95% in 2016. That’s according to a new report from GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association, which shows installed capacity nearly doubled from 7,493MW to 14,626MW. The nation is now home to more than 1.3 million solar installations with a cumulative capacity of around 40GW. For […]

There were 4.8 million energy supplier switches in 2016, a new record. Data published today by Energy UK shows last year’s figure was the highest since the firm started publishing statistics in 2013 and was almost a million higher than in 2015, a 26% increase. This marks a continuation of the two years’ trend of rising numbers of […]

Scotland set two new wind power records in the last days of 2016. Wind power alone generated enough energy to match national demand for four days straight (23rd, 24th, 25th and 26th of December), according to new data from WWF Scotland. This has happened before on single days but never more than once in a […]