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This is an encouraging story but the headline is very misleading. It would be more accurate to say, "Portugal's ELECTRICITY GENERATION runs for four days straig
by garethrees 10y ago
This is an encouraging story but the headline is very misleading. It would be more accurate to say, "Portugal's ELECTRICITY GENERATION runs for four days straight on renewable energy alone."
In Portugal (as in most Western European countries), electricity accounts for about 20% of energy consumption (source: Eurostat). Transport and heating are still almost totally dependant on non-renewable fossil fuels. So there's a long way to go.
- knodi123 10y agoliving near the equator, it's hard for me to remember the great amount of energy that more northerly areas use just to keep their home environments liveable. heating is literally a negligible blip in my overall energy equation.
- xufi 10y agoYeah I'm in the Mid Atlantic and have been to the Northeast and it is definitely a massive amount of money+power that you need just to keep warm.
- jobigoud 10y agoIn France we use electricity for heating a lot. Something like a quarter to a third of all homes are heated using electricity.
- garethrees 10y agoFrance is above average in this respect — electricity accounts for about 25% of energy consumption.