Wind Exceeds 50 Percent of Spanish Electrical Demand
Wind Exceeds 50 Percent of Spanish Electrical Demand
Wind Energy covered more than 50 percent of the electricity demand the whole of Sunday morning, November 8th and generated 11,546 megawatts.
Wind generation broke again a record, for several moments 0n the morning of Sunday 8th, with 53 percent coverage of the demand, with a simultaneous production of around 10,170 MW, according to REE data. The wind production covered from 03h00 till 08h30 over fifty per cent of the demand that in those hours ranged between 21,700 and 19,700 MW, being 19,000 MW the lowest time.
Wind energy generation had already covered last Wednesday and Thursday for more than five hours, both days, over 40 percent of the electricity demand.
Furthermore, in the first nine days of November, wind energy was the first technology of the Spanish electrical system regarding production, reaching 1,770,486 MWh, ahead of the combined cycle with 1,369,955 MWh and the nuclear power with 1,223,350 MWh, a leadership that is consolidated with this week�s production.
The figure of 53 percent far exceeds the record reached last Thursday with 45.1 percent of the demand.
Great news…. now if only North America could catch-up.
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