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The UK’s forecasts for solar power generation have become far more accurate through the use of artificial intelligence, in a development that could lower energy bills and carbon emissions.

The country’s energy system is becoming more reliant sources of electricity with a variable output. Renewables like wind and solar, which depend on the weather, provided 36 per cent of our electricity at the start of this year, up from 7 per cent in 2009. “The growth in solar was much, much more fast-paced than anyone anticipated,” says Cian McLeavey-Reville at …