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Re:Portugal runs for four days on renewable energy alone by ocschwar on Friday May 20, 2016 @02:51PM (#11740458)
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.

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Re:Portugal runs for four days on renewable energy alone by bubuga on Saturday May 21, 2016 @04:42AM (#11743831)
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...

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Re:Portugal runs for four days on renewable energy alone by ocschwar on Saturday May 21, 2016 @11:21PM (#11747257)
Insane. The French prefer depending on Nigerois uranium instead of Portuguese solar? Unreal.

Learn a new thing every day.. Thanks

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