The quarter’s headlines
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by Dr Iain Staffell – Imperial College London
2017 finished by continuing the familiar trends for Britain’s electricity: renewables replacing fossil fuels and carbon emissions falling.
Article 2 begins with a review of events in 2017 – which saw half of Britain’s electricity come from low-carbon sources, as coal and gas output fell by a tenth and wind farms posted a record year.
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