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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Storm helps Poland hit wind energy record: 30% of power

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

Deadly high winds that struck Northern Europe last week generated a record level of wind energy for Poland, covering some 30% of the demand in a country where most of its electricity comes from coal, Poland's power distribution operator said Monday.

On Wednesday evening when gale-force winds hit “we registered a record level of power generation from wind farms of some 6,700 megawatts,” Maciej Wapinski of the Polish Power System, PSE, told The Associated Press.

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