How we keep the lights on through extreme weather

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How will energy technologies cope with the extreme weather climate change will bring? IMechE's Matt Rooney investigates

This summer Britain experienced an unusually long period of calm weather. Dubbed the 'wind drought', this phenomenon meant that output from British wind turbines fell sharply in mid-June and the stayed...

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