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Spain broke the record for generating electricity using renewable energy sources in 2021

Spain broke the record for generating electricity using renewable energy sources in 2021

The share of electricity generation from renewable sources reached a new high in 2021, after it represented 46.7% of the total, a record high that exceeds that achieved in 2020, when the record reached 44%, according to advanced data this Friday. Spanish power grid (REE) and compiled in “Report on the Spanish Electricity System 2021”. The document reveals that the “green” technologies produced last year 121305 gigawatt-hours (Gigawatt-hours)9.7% more than in 2020, and that wind energy production was most prominent with 60,485 GWh generated (10.3% more than the price exercise) and a 23.3% share in the energy mix.

In this sense, the following technology with the largest weight in the generation structure General electricity was nuclear, which although produced 3.1% lower than in 2020, it reached 20.8%. It was followed by combined cycle (17.1%), the technology that uses gas to generate electricity, hydraulics (11.4%) and solar photovoltaics (8%). Coal continued to decline in 2021 and beyond production was 0.7% Less than 2020, “which translates to a share of 1.9%, which is a long way from the figure recorded in 2007, when this technology generated nearly a quarter of the total,” explains REE.

The greater weight of renewable energy in the electricity production mix in 2021 led to a decrease in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions associated with its activity, which is why the national historical minimum emissions were recorded last year at 35.9 million tons. Another notable feature of the REE report is that the installed capacity of solar PV technology is iBy 28.8% in 2021 Compared to the previous year, with a total of 15,048 MW. Specifically, last year more than 3,300 MW of this technology were integrated into the Generation National Park, an enhancement that allowed its production to increase by 36.7% compared to 2020.

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For Red Eléctrica President, Beatrice Corridor, environmental transformation “is the only way to achieve energy supremacy in Europe and is an indisputable lever” for economic recovery. “We have been on this track for years and the 2021 data is an unmistakable sign that we are making progress At a good pace and resolute stepConfirmed during the presentation of the report. Besides the advancement of solar PV, in 2021, wind power generation was 28,175 MW of installed capacity, followed by combined cycle (26,250), hydropower (17094), and solar power. Photovoltaic (15,048), Nuclear (7,117), cogeneration (5639) and coal (3,764). Thus, coal reduced its installed capacity by about 2,000 megawatts, and in 2021 was the largest decrease during the year, as its capacity decreased by 34.3% compared to 2020.

Energy demand increased by 2.5%

The REE report also reveals that the demand for electric power increased by 2.5% in 2021 in the UAE Post-impact recovery framework From the epidemic, specifically, consumption amounted to 256.387 gigawatt-hours. As a curiosity included in the report, on January 8, 2021 at 2:05 pm, that was the moment when maximum demand was recorded in the peninsula electricity system, which Its consumption reached 42,225 megawatts. In terms of peninsula network availability, over the past year it has reached 98.5%, which is very similar to the percentage for the previous year, REE highlights.