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Portugal runs for four days straight on renewable energy alone
Topic Started: May 18 2016, 12:42 PM (454 Views)
Stef
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Zero emission milestone reached as Iberian country is powered by just wind, solar and hydro-generated electricity for 107 hours
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Portugal kept its lights on with renewable energy alone for four consecutive days last week in a clean energy milestone revealed by data analysis of national energy network figures.

Electricity consumption in the Iberian country was fully covered by solar, wind and hydro power in an extraordinary 107-hour run that lasted from 6.45am on Saturday 7 May until 5.45pm the following Wednesday, the analysis says.

News of the zero emissions landmark comes just days after Germany announced that clean energy had powered almost all its electricity needs on Sunday 15 May, with power prices turning negative at several times in the day – effectively paying consumers to use it.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. – Aesop
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Slowly but surely ..... :-)

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In 2015, wind power alone met 42% of electricity demand in Denmark, 20% in Spain, 13% in Germany and 11% in the UK.

In a move hailed as a “historic turning point” by clean energy supporters, UK citizens last week enjoyed their first ever week of coal-free electricity generation.

Watson said: “The age of inflexible and polluting technologies is drawing to an end and power will increasingly be provided from clean, renewable sources.”


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Edited by Stef, May 18 2016, 12:46 PM.
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me_reckons that ya still need considerable investment in infrastructure to get all this set up.
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edro14

Unfortunately in the USA most Congressmen own stock in the fossil fuel energy fields.
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edro14
May 18 2016, 12:54 PM
Unfortunately in the USA most Congressmen own stock in the fossil fuel energy fields.
This is a direct result of the European Union carbon tax system.

The US could do the same. The only thing preventing it is Republican members of Congress.
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https://www.uow.edu.au/~sharonb/liability.html
Makes for interesting reading ...
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mysysail
May 18 2016, 02:44 PM
https://www.uow.edu.au/~sharonb/liability.html
Makes for interesting reading ...
It was an interesting read.
I would argue though that growing usage of renewable energy sources and trading pollution rights are two quite different drives.
An excerpt from the conclusion in the article you refer to caught my attention.
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The real and potential benefits of tradeable pollution rights are ideological and financial rather than environmental. They were developed to reduce the costs of environmental protection to industry, to enable continued economic growth and to keep decision-making power in the hands of industry. They have not led to significant environmental quality improvements.


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