{"id":20537,"date":"2014-01-06T15:43:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T15:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?p=317051"},"modified":"2014-01-06T15:43:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T15:43:28","slug":"spain-achieves-clean-energy-breakthrough-wind-supplies-more-power-than-any-other-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/spain-achieves-clean-energy-breakthrough-wind-supplies-more-power-than-any-other-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain Achieves Clean Energy Breakthrough: Wind Supplies More Power Than Any Other Source"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Wind energy is now king in Spain, officials revealed in a recent report.<\/p>\n

Wind power narrowly beat out nuclear in 2013 as the top source of energy, according to Red Eléctrica de España<\/a> (REE), the transmission agent and operator of the Spanish electricity system. Wind met 21.1 percent of the country’s demand, compared to 21 percent for nuclear.<\/p>\n

“Throughout 2013, the all-time highs of wind power production were exceeded,” according to the report. “On Feb. 6, wind power recorded a new maximum of instantaneous power with 17,056 megawatts (MW) at 3:49 p.m. (2.5 percent up on the previous record registered in April 2012), and that same day the all-time maximum for hourly energy was also exceeded reaching 16,918 MW hours (MWh).<\/p>\n

“Similarly, in January, February, March and November wind power generation was the technology that made the largest contribution towards the total energy production of the system.”<\/p>\n[caption id=\"attachment_317054\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\"]\"Graphic<\/a> Graphic credit: Red Eléctrica de España[\/caption]\n

Wind turbines and farms generated 53,926 gigawatt hours of electricity—a 12-percent increase from last year.<\/p>\n

Renewable energy also accounted for a whopping 49.1 percent of total installed capacity on the Spanish peninsula. That figure was encouraged by increases of 173 MW and 140 MW for wind and solar, respectively.<\/p>\n

Overall demand in the country dropped by 2.1 percent. Emissions decreased by 23 percent.<\/p>\n

Spain experienced similar success with renewables in 2012, when wind met a record 64.2 percent<\/a> of the demand on a September night.<\/p>\n

Visit EcoWatch’s RENEWABLES<\/strong><\/a> page for more related news on this topic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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