For nearly a week, the country of 10 million met customer needs with wind, hydro and solar — a test run for operating the grid without fossil fuels.
“The gas plants were there, waiting to dispatch energy, should it be needed. It was not, because the wind was blowing; it was raining a lot,” said Hugo Costa, who oversees Portugal for EDP Renewables, the renewables arm of the state utility, which was privatized in 2012. “And we were producing with a positive impact to the consumers because the prices have dropped dramatically, almost to zero.”
Now that’s progress!
#netzero2050 #RenewableEnergy #portugal
This post was taken from an article on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joehqluong_portugal-just-ran-on-100-renew…
