UK ramps up to record 50 per cent low carbon power in Q3 clean energy milestone

Michael Holder
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Welcome early Christmas gift for low carbon energy advocates as coal power output continued to fall in third quarter of 2016

Between July and September for the first time ever exactly half of the UK's electricity came from low carbon sources, as coal power output continued to fall, the latest official figures show. Third...

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