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These charts miss Hydroelectricity, which is currently 70% of renewable energy production worldwide. Seattle is more or less entirely powered by renewables, wi
by nickvanw 8y ago
These charts miss Hydroelectricity, which is currently 70% of renewable energy production worldwide.
Seattle is more or less entirely powered by renewables, with 97% of Seattle City Light's energy coming from Hydro, Nuclear or Wind: http://www.seattle.gov/light/FuelMix/ http://www.seattle.gov/light/FuelMix/
- sremani 8y agoThank you for bringing this to my attention, I will check out Seattle and Portland electricity portfolios. Looks very promising though.
- greglindahl 8y agoThere are multiple definitions of "renewable energy" out there. Palo Alto doesn't count "large hydro" as part of their renewables goal.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoThe problem with hydro is mostly fish. Anyways, from an economic perspective, hydro is definitely renewable, and works much the same way a wind turbine does (substitute blowing wind with flowing water).
- 4thaccount 8y agoYea, there are a few massive hydro dams in the Pacific Northwest around Portland/Seattle...just look at Chief Joe dam.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoThe big one would be the Grand Coulee, more than twice as much power capacity as Chief Joe. Norway still has us beat, however.
- 4thaccount 8y agoThanks, that is the other one I couldn't remember and was too lazy to Google.