Wind Energy Reaches 43 Percent Of Spain's Electricity Demand (new record)

[jpak]

http://www.nawindpower.com/naw/e107_plugins/content/content_lt.php?content.3185

At 5 a.m. Central European Time (CET) on Nov. 24, wind power reached a new record of meeting 43% of Spain's electricity demand - with 9,253 MW of wind energy in operation - of the 21,264 MW total demand.

The previous record was broken March 22 at 6 p.m. CET, with 40.8% of the demand, or 9,862 MW. At 12:30 p.m. CET on Nov. 24, 10,263 MW were being produced simultaneously. The previous record of 10,880 MW of wind production was reached on April 18 at 4:50 p.m. CET, representing 30% of the peninsula's demand.

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[gristy]

1. Must have been really a blustery morning!

That's pretty impressive, though wind's average contribution as a % of Spain's total demand is certainly much lower.

[wtmusic]

2. And the demand at 5am would be virtually nil nt

[Indenturedebtor]

4. Either way that's pretty impressive

They can always build more :P

[Nihil]

8. Shhhh!

Tinkerbell will be very sad if she hears you say that!
:cry:

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Over half the demand at 4:50pm, nevertheless

use the figures for April 18th, and the demand comes out as 36,267 MW. Or 24172 MW at 6pm on March 22nd.

So 'virtually nil' isn't really accurate. That 'virtually nil' 21,000 MW is still over 500 W per person.

[izzie]

3. I knew that country was into windmills.

I read it some place.

[NMDemDist2]

7. and all because of this guy eh?

:rofl:

[izzie]

9. And to think we did not find this on Fox news.

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[BR_Parkway]

5. Haven't they heard that they can't replace their energy needs with

renewables - silly Spaniards.

:sarcasm:

[jpak]

6. No Expects the Spanish Windmill Records!!!11

:evilgrin: