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. #nature#environment#renewables#earth
@renewable_energy#Scotland was generating the equivalent of more than 90% of its energy use back in 2020. Curiously our electricity prices keep going up, and are amongst the highest in the world
I'm sure that has nothing to do with our energy companies being privatised by the UK government
@renewable_energy and on top of that, energy companies are now paying anything from 40p down to ONE pence a unit for sustainable energy fed into the grid from domestic solar panels...You can probably guess where on that payment spectrum most of those rates sit 🙄
@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.
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