Spain became the first country in the world where wind power worked more efficiently than other branches of energy production.

According to the report of the national energy operator of Spain, Red Eléctrica de España, last 2013, the share of electricity generated by wind power plants in the country exceeded for the first time the share obtained by burning coal and other individual industries, such as nuclear and / or hydroelectric power plants.

In numbers, the advantage of wind power does not look very impressive, but nevertheless the fact itself is fixed. Below are statistics on the specific contributions to the energy sector of Spain:

• Wind power stations - 20.9%
• Nuclear power plants - 20.8%
• Thermal Power Plants (on coal) - 14.6%
• Hydroelectric power stations - 14.4%
• Steam-gas power plants - 9.6%
• Solar energy - 3.1%

The following estimate gives a slightly less formal idea of ​​this percentage: the production of electricity by wind power plants last year amounted to 54,478 GWh, which is enough for 15.5 million households in the country, which in turn makes up about 90% of their total number in Spain. Interestingly, although nuclear power plants produced 2337 GWh more energy than wind power, but since they themselves are serious consumers, as a result, their specific contribution was less, albeit by a tenth of a percent.
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Also of interest is the price issue, which almost literally depends on where the wind blows. For example, on February 6 of last year - the day on which the peak of electricity generation by wind fell - the cost of MWh was 7.69 euros, while on December 8, when it was probably “windless”, the figure was completely different, about 93.11 euros.

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