Record Wind Power Generation in Spain

Greenpeace UK: On a windy night in September, whilst most people were sleeping, wind power reached a record of 64.2 percent of Spain's electricity demand. The vast majority of Spain`s power that night came not from fossil fuels but clean, renewable energy generated by wind turbines on the Spanish hills. And what couldn`t be used in Spain wasn`t wasted. Some was exported via giant cables linking Spain to the rest of Europe and some was used to pump water uphill so it could be allowed to flow back down later,...

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