To give you some context, Spain generates about 39.1GWh of electricity. That’s about 2.5% of Spain’s electricity generation.
Good but more nuclear would be even better
I thought that Spain given its location already have a substantial solar infrastructure. Does anyone knows how 1GW relates to what is already available?
Decentralized solar isn’t just good for generation, it’s generation of electricity nearby where it’s needed meaning a lot of extra energy without any upgrades to grids except potentially to allow households to sell excess energy to the grid. That’s A LOT of transmission capacity that is then no longer necessary for the added production capacity
Great news, but I’d love them to build lots more solar & wind for export, too. We could really need some here in Germany and I find it weird that we only seem to look at national solutions (this criticism doesn’t go to Spain but my own government) :/ I haven’t seen the sun for fucking weeks up here…
I mean both at the same time – self-supply energy nearby saves on distributing infrastructure, and the rest renewables should be produced where installed capacity’s most effective and feasible (so Spain like a prime destination ofc, but much of the South I guess) within the EU. Win-win all around
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To give you some context, Spain generates about 39.1GWh of electricity. That’s about 2.5% of Spain’s electricity generation.
Good but more nuclear would be even better
I thought that Spain given its location already have a substantial solar infrastructure. Does anyone knows how 1GW relates to what is already available?
Decentralized solar isn’t just good for generation, it’s generation of electricity nearby where it’s needed meaning a lot of extra energy without any upgrades to grids except potentially to allow households to sell excess energy to the grid. That’s A LOT of transmission capacity that is then no longer necessary for the added production capacity
Great news, but I’d love them to build lots more solar & wind for export, too. We could really need some here in Germany and I find it weird that we only seem to look at national solutions (this criticism doesn’t go to Spain but my own government) :/ I haven’t seen the sun for fucking weeks up here…
I mean both at the same time – self-supply energy nearby saves on distributing infrastructure, and the rest renewables should be produced where installed capacity’s most effective and feasible (so Spain like a prime destination ofc, but much of the South I guess) within the EU. Win-win all around
Spain will be the center of global solar energy.