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What is your region ? Is it referenced on electricitymap ? I don't remember seing any US state in the green zone apart from those having lots of hydro, so I'm i

• bluGill 4y ago
  Des Moines iowa. The utility that serves us has a lot of wind turbines. The other utility appearently has much less as the statewide total is less than 50%. Our utility just did a press release claiming 88%.
  • phtrivier 4y ago
    It'd be interesting, then to know which proportion of the electricity consumed by the region corresponds to the wind energy produced in the region. Utilities will do press release, which is fair game - but if in the end their "80% wind" was a one-of, and has to be compensated by the "50% coal, 45% gas" of someone else to keep the lights on... We have pretty much the same situation in Europe with Denmark, some parts of Spain, etc... Which still don't help with a big Germany or Poland in the middle. Grids aren't easy !