2017: The 'greenest year ever' for electricity

Madeleine Cuff
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Analysis of National Grid data reveals UK grid smashed 13 clean energy records in 2017

The UK smashed 13 clean energy records last year in the ‘greenest year ever' for electricity production in the country, according to WWF analysis of National Grid data. The sweep of new records was...

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