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Renewable Energy

Portugal is crushing it: renewables met 91% of Portugal’s electricity needs in the first 4 months this year & have pushed their⚡️prices to a 4 yr low!

Renewables are carrying an increasing % of their electrcity demand in the first 4 months in 2024:
- 95% April
- 91% March
- 88% Feb
- 81% in Jan

Portugal’s rapid transition is evidence it can be done: renewables are up from 27% in 2005 & 54% in 2017 with their last coal power plant shut down in 2021.
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Show threadPaul 💙 28 💔 💚May 16, 2024

@renewable_energy

In a fine 'Bullseye' tradition.... "Look what you could have won"

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@renewable_energy you forgot the link
Show threadDavid FowlerMay 16, 2024

@renewable_energy
Reading down my mastodon feed.
In Florida, under de idiot DeSantis, Florida has banned even using the words climate change. As the seas rise, filled with local red tide, since they don’t treat all their waste.

In Portugal they already produce 90% of their energy from renewables.

Used to be America led the world in technology and fix it solutions.
Now led by Republicans peddling propaganda and nonsense, a nation of anti-science stupids.
Feeding pablum to the fools.

Show threadRichard Michael BlaberMay 16, 2024
@davidfowler @renewable_energy I agree with almost all of this - except the technology bit, as to assume technology will get us out of the mess it got us into is expecting far too much, because it won't. The great god "technology" is an idol, & we have to stop worshipping it.
Show threadTichodrome ColvertMay 16, 2024
@renewable_energy Until fairly recently most grids promoted as "mostly from renewables" relied mainly on hydro and in some cases geothermal (e.g. Norway, Quebec, Iceland). While Portugal has a fair share of hydro, seeing a grid run mostly on renewables without hydro and geothermal taking the overwhelming lion's share in the electricity mix is encouraging. I hope we will see more grids like that in the future, coming closer to 100% renewables without a large share of hydro or geothermal, proving the concept to be feasible outside of some specific geographical conditions.
Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛May 17, 2024

Source: theprogressplaybook.com/2024/0…

@renewable_energy

Portugal is averaging 91% renewable electricity in 2024, with Europe's lowest power prices

In April, renewable energy generation covered 95% of the nation's electricity demand.

The Progress Playbook
Show threadMichael DexterMay 19, 2024
@renewable_energy
Your move Germany.
@seachanger
Show threadChristian KentMay 19, 2024
@renewable_energy @glynmoody Never let them forget: Nuclear is the nuclear option — super expensive. The only room for argument left is what mixture of investment to have in more storage vs redundant renewable capacity vs gas backup.
Show threadGlyn MoodyMay 19, 2024
@ckent fortunately the data points in favour of renewables are increasing all the time... @renewable_energy
Show threadChristian KentMay 19, 2024
@glynmoody @renewable_energy Yep it’s rare to see an actual graph, in support of a bold claim from a nukey fanboy
Show threadErwin Rossen 🔸May 19, 2024

@renewable_energy Great news! 🙌

Do you have a source for these numbers? I wonder how they are calculated. In Our World in Data, the percentages for 2005 and 2017 are 18% and 39% respectively.

Is there by the way a reason you took 2005 and 2017 as reference years. They are markedly lower than the years around it, so it is skewing perception.

Show threadTom HarringtonMay 19, 2024
@renewable_energy @KevinHoctor the January thru April trend probably has a lot to do with increasing daylight hours over that period
Show threadKevin HoctorMay 21, 2024
@atomicbird @renewable_energy maybe so, but there still needs to be the infrastructure to capture renewable energy.
Show threadRenewable EnergyMay 21, 2024
@KevinHoctor @atomicbird that’s right, Kevin. As mentioned above, California’s grid renewables this time last year didn’t perform as we aee seeing this year.
Show threadRenewable EnergyMay 21, 2024
@atomicbird @KevinHoctor last year during this same time period, California’s grid rarely had figures like we see this year.
Show threadRamesh May 20, 2024
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Can we have more details of the renewables used please?
Show threadcwicseolfor (has moved!)May 20, 2024
@renewable_energy #alt4you Headline: "Portugal is averaging 91% renewable electricity in 2024, with Europe's lowest power prices" - Nick Hedley, May 2024, with photo of bridges and colorful rooftops in Porto, Portugal under a cloudy pink, pearl, and slate sky.
Show threadRichard Michael BlaberMay 20, 2024
@renewable_energy I'll say it again, for your benefit - electricity is NOT the whole of energy consumption. In fact, in 2022, it was a mere 20.4% of global final energy consumption (https://yearbook.enerdata.net/electricity/share-electricity-final-consumption.html).
Share of electricity in total final energy consumption

Get the present share of electricity statistics in total final energy consumption mix by country or region.

Show threadR.MarxMay 20, 2024
@renewable_energy rhis is really great! Some ppl here foresighted we'd go without power when nuclear plants are shut and coal mines closed... see, there's no catasrophe ahead. Nice to proclaim 😁
Show threadRenewable EnergyMay 20, 2024

@Beasley right?! There is always the doom and gloom on the topics of renewables yet we still march ahead unabated by grid failure.

Imagine that! 🤷🏻‍♂️

Show threadKhmer vert pépèreMay 20, 2024
@renewable_energy
Is it renewable electricity added to a mix where most of the energy consumtion isn't electricity and the grey energy of that production not taken into account ? Can't call that a transition if it's made elsewhere with coal energy, and brought here with petrol.
Show threadRenewable EnergyMay 20, 2024

@OLeben this question doesn’t even make sense to be honest. The data shown is directly from CAISO.

All grids are a mix and this data shows you what that mix is. It’s pretty straight forward.

Show threadKhmer vert pépèreMay 21, 2024
@renewable_energy wrong way of asking the question maybe ? The data you posted are % of the mix. Did the global quantities grow/stay/decrease, that was my first question.
Is the grey energy needed to make the renewable electricity facilities and grid taken into account or not, that was my second question.
The two answers are needed to call the increasing part of renewable electricity in the portugese energy mix a transition.
That was my point, sorry if doesn't make any sense.