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You think it's too much or too little? Sun availability didn't matter much in Spain until recently, as the country finally got rid of the "sun tax" that limited
by capableweb 3y ago
You think it's too much or too little? Sun availability didn't matter much in Spain until recently, as the country finally got rid of the "sun tax" that limited the development of wide-spread solar panel usage. Essentially, even if you used solar panels, you'd be taxed on every kWh produced, even from your own solar panels. Luckily, they got rid of it, so probably the development will ramp up a bit from now on.
- wott 3y ago> You think it's too much or too little? When it's night in Portugal, it's night in Spain :-)
- Kon5ole 3y agoSpain has quite a few solar plants that generate power even at night.
- Ekaros 3y agoIt seems surprisingly high for night time production. As I think original comment was about momentary production.
- troupo 3y agoI was surprised, too. Data is from https://app.electricitymaps.com/map https://app.electricitymaps.com/map, so could be quite inaccurate
- Ekaros 3y agoI somewhat suspect the data. Could be that there is some inaccuracies and it is also from earlier point of time
- laurencerowe 3y agoBetter data for Spain in 2022: Solar: 11.5% Wind: 22.7% Hydro: 6.6% https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-elec-by-source?country=~ESP https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-elec-by-source?coun...
- troupo 3y agoIt's not better data because it shows data in aggregate.
- polshaw 3y agoThe time of the data is written there (right under where it says Spain) As of this moment it says 19:00 and 3% of electricity, which was before sunset, it was probably an hour or more earlier, and sun has been especially strong today.
- Symbiote 3y agoSpain has some heat-the-molten-salt power plants which continue to produce electricity after sunset.