Personally, I was shocked to see Lithuania. Is it really that green or do they utilize as much electricity or?
Our thing is water.
If there’s one natural resource which is abundant in Switzerland, it’s that 🙂
I heard a fact on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme last week that amazed me:
>*The newest wind turbines provide sufficient energy for one home for one day with just one rotation.*
Seems like a really weird scale, why not 0-5%,5-10% etc? Or even 0-10%, 10-20%
Wtf I hate Denmark now
Edit: /s
I ❤ windmøller
It will take about 5 seconds for the rabid nuclear crowd to get here.
It would be more useful to see domestic wind power generations as percentage of electricity consumed. Like currently Lithuania looks really great on this map, but it gets much less awesome when one realizes that their domestic production is nowhere close to actually covering their domestic consumption, so they simply import lots of electricity from abroad.
Over what period of time?
Edit: Data for the year 2020
Very happy to see Ireland up there, we’re typically not at the forefront of green issues.
Perhaps it’s a downside of the “it has beautiful unspoilt countryside” line is you take it for granted and fail to protect it; whereas nations with worse (or more obvious/highlighted) pollution tend to be more proactive.
UK [didn’t do quite so well](http://www.mygridgb.co.uk/last-12-months/) in the last 12 months (18% of total power consumed) as the 2020 season was a bumper year. Still, we keep adding ever more efficient turbines to the fleet so ~25% should be achievable in a more “normal” year soon.
If you’re like me and wondering how on Earth can Italy with the longest ever shoreline be at 6.6%, look at [https://globalwindatlas.info/](https://globalwindatlas.info/) and click on mean power density.
20% sounds pretty good tbh.
guess we all die from windturbine cancer then
Ok, but you’d never guess that Sweden generates more wind energy per capita than Ireland from this chart. Which begs the question, what is the purpose of dividing by “electricity consumption”?
If it’s to factor in consumption, some places use fossil fuels for heating, some use electricity. I.e. this chart is as much about how electricity is used as it is about wind generation.
Better to either just graph wind generation per capita, or wind generation/ “total energy” per capita.
France has so much potential for offshore wind in the atlantic. Especially as floating wind turbine technology matures.
I think Macrons plan of 160gw of wind by 2050 will seem pretty conservative in only a few years.
The economic potential alone will accelerate it much fastee
Wouldn’t a better metric be: % of generated wind energy in respect to total **consumed** energy
It’d be interesting to see Scotland
Norway is in the process of a big planning for offshore windmill parks that will produce on average 4 terrawatt hours per year.
It was not a great year for wind.
Why is Norway so low? Isn’t it profitable to sell wind energy to the continent?
I didn’t even know that Slovakia had wind farms. I doubt it will ever reach even 1% though. The only carbon free sources that have any future here are nuclear and geothermal.
With that high amount of wind energy Denmark is clearly bound for desaster and permanent blackouts. 🤡
This website shows way more detail, updated every few hours:
Why do we need wind energy if there is a lot of gas and oil? The wind may or may not be. The Heat and Energy station is always working.
In Switzerland, Slovakia and Russia the only wind power generated is from people farting. 😂
Well regulation and grid stability is really hard to solve issue with wind. We can’t solve the global warming by just slapping turbines everywhere.
Keep in mind this is only for electricity. For overall energy consumption (including transportation and heating) unfortunately renewables make up a small amount.
Funny how Denmark, Lithuania and Ireland are about on the same latitude (coincidence?)
When you read news from the contries with 0.1% to 2% wind power generation, you read statements that “wind could never provide power in our country”, yet the neighbouring countries show amazing level of their generation share! So, something smells weird!
Ok, great, but are energy imports included in the calculation?
Cause otherwise, that’s kinda easy and 100% of the energy I produce is eolian.
Interesting data. Good to see, that the country’s in EU are being more eco-friendly.
Also put up a map of average wind speed. What we have in Ireland is not attainable in other countries with less wind.
Now do the same map, but dependency on fossile fuel. All countries with a lot of wind power burns a lot of fossile fuel as well.
22.9% not bad you might think the funny thing about germany is we are replacing nuclear energy with wind and this means we are increasing our CO2 emissions seriously now we are destroying the world here in germany and our government certainly thinks we are still on the right track to save the world i don’t like reality cheers I kind of hope for war, a nuclear winter like that would certainly cool the earth after the hot weeks or months
And now do the same with prices
Still don’t understand why Spain does not have more solar. I mean there is plenty of space and the occasional sunny day ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Now I know why France needs all that nuclear power 😏
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Iceland has OVER 0.1%?! woaaahh good job iceland
Source: https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/statistical-review-of-world-energy.html
Denmark? more like WIN energy 😀
Personally, I was shocked to see Lithuania. Is it really that green or do they utilize as much electricity or?
Our thing is water.
If there’s one natural resource which is abundant in Switzerland, it’s that 🙂
I heard a fact on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme last week that amazed me:
>*The newest wind turbines provide sufficient energy for one home for one day with just one rotation.*
Seems like a really weird scale, why not 0-5%,5-10% etc? Or even 0-10%, 10-20%
Wtf I hate Denmark now
Edit: /s
I ❤ windmøller
It will take about 5 seconds for the rabid nuclear crowd to get here.
It would be more useful to see domestic wind power generations as percentage of electricity consumed. Like currently Lithuania looks really great on this map, but it gets much less awesome when one realizes that their domestic production is nowhere close to actually covering their domestic consumption, so they simply import lots of electricity from abroad.
Over what period of time?
Edit: Data for the year 2020
Very happy to see Ireland up there, we’re typically not at the forefront of green issues.
Perhaps it’s a downside of the “it has beautiful unspoilt countryside” line is you take it for granted and fail to protect it; whereas nations with worse (or more obvious/highlighted) pollution tend to be more proactive.
UK [didn’t do quite so well](http://www.mygridgb.co.uk/last-12-months/) in the last 12 months (18% of total power consumed) as the 2020 season was a bumper year. Still, we keep adding ever more efficient turbines to the fleet so ~25% should be achievable in a more “normal” year soon.
If you’re like me and wondering how on Earth can Italy with the longest ever shoreline be at 6.6%, look at [https://globalwindatlas.info/](https://globalwindatlas.info/) and click on mean power density.
20% sounds pretty good tbh.
guess we all die from windturbine cancer then
Ok, but you’d never guess that Sweden generates more wind energy per capita than Ireland from this chart. Which begs the question, what is the purpose of dividing by “electricity consumption”?
If it’s to factor in consumption, some places use fossil fuels for heating, some use electricity. I.e. this chart is as much about how electricity is used as it is about wind generation.
Better to either just graph wind generation per capita, or wind generation/ “total energy” per capita.
France has so much potential for offshore wind in the atlantic. Especially as floating wind turbine technology matures.
I think Macrons plan of 160gw of wind by 2050 will seem pretty conservative in only a few years.
The economic potential alone will accelerate it much fastee
Wouldn’t a better metric be: % of generated wind energy in respect to total **consumed** energy
It’d be interesting to see Scotland
Norway is in the process of a big planning for offshore windmill parks that will produce on average 4 terrawatt hours per year.
It was not a great year for wind.
Why is Norway so low? Isn’t it profitable to sell wind energy to the continent?
I didn’t even know that Slovakia had wind farms. I doubt it will ever reach even 1% though. The only carbon free sources that have any future here are nuclear and geothermal.
With that high amount of wind energy Denmark is clearly bound for desaster and permanent blackouts. 🤡
This website shows way more detail, updated every few hours:
https://app.electricitymap.org/map?wind=true
Geez my country is lower than I thought.
Why do we need wind energy if there is a lot of gas and oil? The wind may or may not be. The Heat and Energy station is always working.
In Switzerland, Slovakia and Russia the only wind power generated is from people farting. 😂
Well regulation and grid stability is really hard to solve issue with wind. We can’t solve the global warming by just slapping turbines everywhere.
Keep in mind this is only for electricity. For overall energy consumption (including transportation and heating) unfortunately renewables make up a small amount.
Funny how Denmark, Lithuania and Ireland are about on the same latitude (coincidence?)
When you read news from the contries with 0.1% to 2% wind power generation, you read statements that “wind could never provide power in our country”, yet the neighbouring countries show amazing level of their generation share! So, something smells weird!
Ok, great, but are energy imports included in the calculation?
Cause otherwise, that’s kinda easy and 100% of the energy I produce is eolian.
Interesting data. Good to see, that the country’s in EU are being more eco-friendly.
Also put up a map of average wind speed. What we have in Ireland is not attainable in other countries with less wind.
Denmark blows
numbers are way off official statistic: https://windeurope.org/intelligence-platform/product/wind-energy-in-europe-2020-statistics-and-the-outlook-for-2021-2025/
its gonna go to 1293% in germany/poland
Now do the same map, but dependency on fossile fuel. All countries with a lot of wind power burns a lot of fossile fuel as well.
22.9% not bad you might think the funny thing about germany is we are replacing nuclear energy with wind and this means we are increasing our CO2 emissions seriously now we are destroying the world here in germany and our government certainly thinks we are still on the right track to save the world i don’t like reality cheers I kind of hope for war, a nuclear winter like that would certainly cool the earth after the hot weeks or months
And now do the same with prices
Still don’t understand why Spain does not have more solar. I mean there is plenty of space and the occasional sunny day ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Now I know why France needs all that nuclear power 😏