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Re:Portugal over 90% renewable electricity in May and June by anovikov on Monday July 08, 2024 @07:06AM (#40904317)
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.

Re:Portugal over 90% renewable electricity in May and June by durkie on Monday July 08, 2024 @10:10AM (#40905584)
What's the reality check? It sounds like your result basically agrees with the link title.
Re:Portugal over 90% renewable electricity in May and June by Jedd on Monday July 08, 2024 @10:11AM (#40905598)
Is that 10.1% effectively agreeing with TFA that ~90% of electricity consumed in Portugal was sourced from renewables?
Re:Portugal over 90% renewable electricity in May and June by anovikov on Monday July 08, 2024 @10:42AM (#40905873)
Yes but not in the last two months. In the last 6 months, yes.
Re:Portugal over 90% renewable electricity in May and June by thebruce87m on Monday July 08, 2024 @03:23PM (#40908573)
So the reality check is actually better than the headline?
Re:Portugal over 90% renewable electricity in May and June by ZeroGravitas on Monday July 08, 2024 @11:07AM (#40906099)
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.

Re:Portugal over 90% renewable electricity in May and June by rich_sasha on Monday July 08, 2024 @05:27PM (#40909905)
Sunny country composed entirely of mountains and oceanic coast produces lots of renewable energy.