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Portugal over 90% renewable electricity in May and June (twitter.com/johnrhanger)
24 points by locallost on July 8, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments


Reality check: 41.5% of electricity in Portugal in June was provided by net imports. https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy_pie/chart.htm?l=en&...

Over H1 2024 overall, indeed Portugal shows good results with 80%+ of it's power consumed being domestically produced renewables, 8.7% fossil fuels, and 11.1% imports. Because all import is from Spain, which had 60%+ renewables too, and only 12.5% fossils, it is like, 10.1% or so fossil-derived power overall, which is a good result.


What's the reality check? It sounds like your result basically agrees with the link title.


Is that 10.1% effectively agreeing with TFA that ~90% of electricity consumed in Portugal was sourced from renewables?


Yes but not in the last two months. In the last 6 months, yes.


So the reality check is actually better than the headline?


Source of data:

https://ember-climate.org/data/data-tools/data-explorer/

You can recreate the graph and download an image like that have but, unless I'm missing it, there's no way to link directly to a specific configuration of the tool.


Sunny country composed entirely of mountains and oceanic coast produces lots of renewable energy.




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