{"id":41027,"date":"2018-11-28T08:53:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T13:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41027"},"modified":"2018-11-28T08:53:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T13:53:55","slug":"now-spain-proposes-to-go-100-renewable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41027","title":{"rendered":"Now Spain proposes to go 100% renewable"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/euanmearns.com\/now-spain-proposes-to-go-100-renewable\/\">Now Spain proposes to go 100% renewable<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/9\/9a\/Flag_of_Spain.svg\/1200px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/>The list of countries, states, cities and towns that have announced ambitious plans to go 100% renewable continues to grow. The latest entrant is Spain, which according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/nov\/13\/spain-plans-switch-100-renewable-electricity-2050\" target=\"blank\">the Guardian<\/a>\u00a0plans to switch to 100% renewable electricity by 2050 and aims to fully decarbonize the country\u2019s economy shortly after. Evaluating the full decarbonization option is beyond the scope of a blog post, so here I give Spain the routine\u00a0<em>Energy Matters<\/em>\u00a0treatment to see whether it has any chance of converting its electricity sector to 100% renewables by 2050.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-22787\"><\/span><br \/>\nA couple of observations to begin with. First, Spain\u2019s plans are set forth in a draft Climate Change and Energy Transition Law that has yet to pass Congress. The recently installed S\u00e1nchez government has a shaky hold on power and will need support from other parties to make it official. But which politician these days can resist the magic catch-phrase \u201c100% renewables\u201d? Even\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/nov\/23\/tory-mps-demand-net-zero-carbon-emissions-by-2050-theresa-may-climate-change\" target=\"blank\">Conservative MPs in the UK<\/a>\u00a0are now calling for it.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the data presented here are for the Spanish \u201cPeninsula\u201d \u2013 i.e. mainland \u2013 only. The Balearic and Canary Islands are ignored.<\/p>\n<p>The table below summarizes Spain\u2019s generation capacity at the end of 2017. The data are from the Red El\u00e9ctrica de Espa\u00f1a (REE)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ree.es\/en\/statistical-data-of-spanish-electrical-system\" target=\"blank\">Statistical data of electrical system report<\/a>\u00a02017:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.postimg.cc\/j5xR2vkc\/Untitled.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i.postimg.cc\/j5xR2vkc\/Untitled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two more comments are in order here. First, REE conveniently segregates generation sources into renewable and non-renewable categories as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NON-RENEWABLE ENERGIES: Includes pumped storage, nuclear, fuel\/gas, combined cycle, cogeneration and renewable waste.<br \/>\nRENEWABLE ENERGY: Includes hydro, hydro-wind, wind, solar photovoltaic, solar thermal, biogas, biomass, marine-hydro, geothermal and renewable waste.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Segregating the results in accordance with these definitions shows that renewables supplied about a third of Spain\u2019s electricity in 2017. It\u2019s not clear whether distributed generation is included in REE\u2019s numbers, but word searches for \u201cdistributed\u201d, \u201cembedded\u201d and \u201crooftop\u201d yielded zero hits.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now Spain proposes to go 100% renewable The list of countries, states, cities and towns that have announced ambitious plans to go 100% renewable continues to grow. The latest entrant is Spain, which according to\u00a0the Guardian\u00a0plans to switch to 100% renewable electricity by 2050 and aims to fully decarbonize the country\u2019s economy shortly after. Evaluating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11260,674,11990,743],"class_list":["post-41027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-energy-matters","tag-renewable-energy","tag-roger-andrews","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41028,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41027\/revisions\/41028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}