SPAIN GETS SUN UP TO 3% OF POWER

Spain Generated 3% of its Electricity from Solar in 2010; Despite Fallout--Spanish Solar Systems Delivering Billions of Kilowatt-hours Wind Now Bigger than Hydro or Coal Produces More Wind & Solar than California
Paul Gipe, January 27, 2011 (Wind-Works)

"…Spain [reportedly] generated nearly 3% of its electricity from solar energy in 2010…Despite withering criticism of Spain's once-thriving solar industry, projects installed during the boom years of 2007 and 2008 are producing commercial quantities of electricity."

"…[Red Electrica, Spain’s grid operator, reported] that solar energy produced 6.9 TWh last year from 4,000 MW of generating capacity, mostly solar photovoltaics (PV), for 2.7% of supply…"

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"...Wind turbines generated nearly 43 TWh in 2010 for 16.4% of supply, slightly more than hydroelectricity…[Hydro] produced more electricity last year, 38 TWh, than anytime since 1997.

"The new renewables of wind and solar in combination provided 19% of supply…Spain's climate, geography, and population are similar to that of California. Spain's 46 million inhabitants consume some 260 TWh per year…California's 37 million people consume about 300 TWh per year…Together wind and solar provide only 2% of California's electricity."