Just a few day after it was retrieve that Germany was producing so much vigor from renewables that theyeffectively had to pay consumers to use it , yet another commonwealth has hit another renewable milepost . Portugal managed to keep its lights on for four sequential days , power only by renewables .
datum analysis of the nation ’s national energy meshwork figuresreveal thatall electrical energy consumption was continue by solar , wind , and hydro power from 6.45 a.m UTC on Saturday , May 7 until 5.45 p.m UTC Wednesday , May 11 . This impressive feat is just one of a identification number to have issue forth out of Europe over the last yr or so , from Germany last week , toDenmark last year break its own recordby generating 42 percentage of its electricity in 2015 by wind exponent alone .
“ This is a substantial achievement for a European country , but what seems extraordinary today will be commonplace in Europe in just a few years , ” excuse James Watson , the CEO of SolarPower Europe , toThe Guardian . “ The energy transition process is gathering momentum and records such as this will keep on to be place and separate across Europe . ”
The country has amount a long way in its loyalty to reduce its trust on fossil fuels and switching to more sustainable energy sources . With the milestone being hit in the leap , the energy companies hope that summer will be equally as successful . And all this from a rural area that only three years ago generated one-half of its vigor from burning fuel , and almost a third from nuclear . By last year , however , they deal to change by reversal things around , so that now renewables on average account for just under half of all electricity coevals .
“ These data show that Portugal can be more ambitious in a transition to a net consumption of electrical energy from 100 % renewable , with huge reductions in emissions of nursery gas , which stimulate global heating and consequently climate modification , ” said the Portuguese sustainability NGO , Zero , in a statement . The late 107 - hour stretch has been put down not just to favourable conditions conditions , but also better management of the energy grid .
Portugal just live to show that it is entirely possible to apace dislodge from a res publica to a great extent reliant on fossil fuels , to one which can be powered in large part by renewables , despite what many opposer say . This milestone is another mark , of which many more will come over the following months and year , as more and more Carry Nation not just in Europe but around the creation embrace clean vigour .
