Updated: UK renewable electricity output reaches all-time high

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Second quarter of 2011 saw green generation contribute 9.6 per cent of the UK's electricity supply, a 50 per cent rise on 2010

Renewable electricity contributed an all time high of 9.6 per cent of the UK's grid mix in the second quarter of this year, statistics released today by the Department of Energy and Climate Change have...

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