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Environment & Energy

NickB79

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6. Europe banked on a widespread renewables grid to balance demand

Reply to WHITT (Reply #3)

Wed Nov 10, 2021, 09:10 PM

Nov 2021

And got hit badly this summer when serious wind lulls hit large swathes of the continent for days on end, to the point mothballed coal plants were reactivated.

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