Re:Portugal runs for four days on renewable energy alone
by joaoaccarvalho on Friday May 20, 2016 @07:59AM
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As others said you'll find more wind and hydro power in the north.
As far as solar power is concerned, there's not so much in Portugal, because it was expensive until some couple of years. Nowadays we have a remuneration scheme that allows you to consume directly from your solar panel, thus not increasing the accumulated tariff debt (it is currently at ~5billion€. Spain is worse at ~27billion€. They invested in solar power too early)
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Re:Portugal runs for four days on renewable energy alone
by ocschwar on Friday May 20, 2016 @02:51PM
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A pity.
Portuguese solar can take a big bite out of French peak demand. The sun sets on Marseilles, and everyone's coming home for dinner, but there's still some sun in PT.
Re:Portugal runs for four days on renewable energy alone
by bubuga on Saturday May 21, 2016 @04:42AM
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IIRC, France has been very adamant in refusing to get its energy from spain and portugal due to political reasons. This became patently obvious in the EU's energy union negotiations, and in the way France insisted in forcing the so called Pyrenees power bottleneck (the only limitation to Spain and Portugal's ability to supply electrical energy to France)
http://www.reuters.com/article/france-spain-electricity-idUS...