Too much of a good thing? Spain's green energy can exceed demand
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| Publisher | BBC News |
| Year of publication | 2024 June 17 |
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| Medium | Digital Note: Copyright restrictions mean the attachment below only contains part of the publication. The full document is available for inspection at the Mills Archive Research and Education Centre. |
| Edition | 1 |
| Topics | Climate, environment and development > Renewable energy policy and economics |
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| Scope & content | Spain’s total wind generation capacity, its prime renewable source in recent years, has doubled since 2008. Solar energy capacity, meanwhile, has increased by a factor of eight over the same period. This makes Spain the EU member state with the second-largest renewable energy infrastructure, after Sweden in first place. ..... However, behind this success story, there are concerns within the electricity industry caused by an imbalance between supply and demand with, at times, as urplus of electricity. Even though the Spanish economy has bounced back strongly from the trauma of the Covid pandemic, and is growing faster than all of the bloc’s other big economies, electricity consumption has been dropping in recent years. Concerns about Spain having an excess of electricity have led to discussion of the need to accelerate the "electrification" of the economy, which involves moving it away from fossil fuels. The Sánchez government has set a target of making 34% of the economy reliant on electricity by 2030. |
| Web URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czkkgnp1d2xo |
