Spains Wind Turbine Record
November 10th, 2009 - Chris MarshallI wrote recently that on a recent trip to Granada it was noticeable how many Wind Turbines there were now in Spain.
What I hadn’t realised was that Spain has the third most wind turbine farms, with the USA leading the way followed (surprisingly for me) by Germany.
Well with the strong winds over the weekend it appears that more than half of Spain’s electricity was generated by these turbines over a five hour period last weekend, which is a new record, and the equivalent of eleven nuclear plants! This is one in the eye to the critics who doubted production would ever get over 14%.
Talking of wind turbines ………. slightly ironic that on the same day as I post this the UK has approved ten new sites for …………. new nuclear power stations, one of which may require a existing wind turbine farm to be destroyed!
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