More flexible, more renewable - our evolving energy systems are changing fast

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In the latest in our Green Business 2022 series, Professor Catherine Mitchell explores what the UK's energy system may look like in six years' time

There are two changes which are fundamentally altering both practice and mind-set within electricity systems around the world. The first is the rapid take-up of variable power renewables within a few countries...

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