60% of electricity in Spain comes from renewable energy

Spain is surging ahead in renewable energy, with nearly 60% of its electricity sourced from green power in the first half of 2024. Wind farms led the charge with 24.4%, followed by solar plants at 16.3% and hydropower at 15.9%. This significant increase from 51% just a year ago underscores Spain's rapid transition towards sustainability. Coupled with nuclear energy contributing 18.6%, the nation has achieved a remarkable milestone, with nearly 80% of its power now carbon-free. But not everybody agrees on the model. Spain is surging ahead in renewable energy, with nearly 60% of its electricity sourced from green power in the first half of 2024. Wind farms led the charge with 24.4%, followed by solar plants at 16.3% and hydropower at 15.9%. This significant increase from 51% just a year ago underscores Spain's rapid transition towards sustainability. Coupled with nuclear energy contributing 18.6%, the nation has achieved a remarkable milestone, with nearly 80% of its power now carbon-free. But not everybody agrees on the model. Xaume Olleros reports.

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[babaluBRA]

Brazil achieved 93.1% of power generation from renewable sources in 2023

[SustainableTreasure]

This is great news. Gradually the world is going green kudos to you guys

[matthewbaynham]

Here in Germany, Bayern are blocking wind turbines like that. So I guess we have to move the factories to where the clean energy is.

[Енвер-су]

Are these Don Quixote's windmills that generate electricity? 😅

[JoséFerIzaparraga]

so what? Tajikistan produces 98% of its energy from the dam built by the Soviets, which at the time was the largest dam in the entire USSR.

[str]

Palestinians love spain and spainish people ❤

[Terkini-prnj]

I think. Spain can be 90 % before 2030

[alberthartl]

This is great 👍. What are they doing for storage?

[Zo-hcfn]

something is wrong with classic wind turbines,
let's please have something new :
a vertical axis wind turbine (spinning like a carousel)
this wind turbine would look exactly like a tree, I call it : e-tree,
the trunk of the e-tree is brown, the spinning sails (blades) are green,
and finally attached to the trunk of the e-tree are features of : wifi/mobile network, light and power outlet, to charge a car for example

[roryniland]

I would have thought that in Spain solar would be easier and cheaper ?

[coolbanana]

I wonder why they use wind rather than solar

[nucleusv]

They can also solar panels with transparent windows between small solar panel to let sun light to the ground, so they can use it as shadow screen their soil is burned, so having solar panels will help to utilise sun energy and grow more food if they have excess of food they can always put them in bio gas plant to produce soil fertilizers and adding to improve soil and they need water so better develop air condensers :)

[dennisenright]

The important question is whether people's electricity bill went down when the use of renewables went up

[tentimesful]

in holland, I checked alot of electricity suppliers for household so I can get cashback ranging from 100-250 euros and they say they are 100% renewable energy suppliers lol... holland does have some plants that are not renewable but they are probably to give military or big energy consummating companies i think.. holland even has a nuclear plant, but household 100% on renewable energy....

also I rip off the energy company supplying me as I have solar energy i paid of with the money it gave me and dont use gas just alcohol(50 euro a month with drinking 96+ % litre each 3 days and no day without it lol) 2-3 trousers depending on how cold and sometimes electric heating.... so get mostly around 750 euros including the yearly cashback they promise.. 1 time I got 1300 euro but that was back in the time when electric was cheap... do pay 30 euro a month though just to be sure, who knows a winter can come where I need to use the scary gas bill

[chrisgriffiths]

Line the Wind Generator Poles and Top with Solar Panels.
Then Power All the Controls for the WG from Solar, Increase Efficiency.
Not Bad Spain, but 100% by Adding Solar is Definitely Achievable.

[joeschmoe]

It is a lie. In the past, Spain had a program of giving cash to home owners who sold electricity from solar panels. The rate was higher than the cost of producing electricity with diesel generators in the basement. Clever Spanish people quickly learned they can make money selling diesel generated electricity back to the utilities by calling it solar (and put a few solar panels on the roof to make it look real). This resulted in the previous news that Spain is producing 40% electricity from renewables. I can only assume the new numbers are similar.

GreenPeace is active in Spain and come up with these gimmicky reports which news media quickly publish as the 'good news' of the day. No one verifies the numbers. I know about the previous fake news because I challenged GreenPeace at that time (they had published the report). The nature of the deception was just amazing.

Unfortunately, we are stuck with fossil fuels. ALL windmills and solar panels are manufactured, transported and installed and maintained using lots of fossil fuels. When we run out of fossil fuels, windmills and solar panels will become unsustainable. But neither journalists nor politicians are interested in the true arithmetic.