Importing and exporting wind

 Another long Navarese road.  I mean, it is interesting, It has a cliff one side and a field the other.  Much of it looks like it has had all the minerals it could provide extracted.   Lets talk windpower.  Navara has a lot of it.


Spain was an early leader in development of wind power, ranking second after Germany by installed capacity until 2006, when it was surpassed by the United States.  Like the US, Spain has a lot of land no one is going to get upset about putting a wind farm up in. In November 2009, a wind storm caused wind farms to produce a peak of 53% of total electricity demand (11.546 GW).  This was surpassed in November 2011 with a capacity peak of 59% of power demand being generated by wind power.



In 2022, Spain's wind energy sector contributed significantly to the country's electricity supply, averaging 25% of total consumption. This figure stands in contrast to the EU average, which is over 17%. On specific occasions, the contribution of wind power in Spain reached 50% of the total electricity demand, indicating the sector's capacity to meet a substantial portion of the country's energy needs.




The US rating agency Standard & Poors, in a 2006 investigation of standard of living in Europe, ranked Navarre, whose primary source of renewable energy was wind power, uppermost among the 17 autonomous regions of Spain. At that time Navarre sustained approximately 70 percent of its electricity needs from renewable energy sources, wind farms being used most extensively, and had a 900-megawatt capacity of installed wind power.




Navarre lacks thermal, nuclear, coal, oil, gas fields, or hefty hydro-electric power stations, but does possess considerable wind renewable resources, which the Government of Navarre pursued to drop its external energy dependence.Navarre was entirely reliant on imported energy until wind-power development and utilization began progress in 1996.

As of 2022 Navarra ranked 6th in terms of megawattage produced in Spain - 1,341.8mw, compared to Castile & Leon’s 6,507.2 - albeit the later is 9 times larger in surface area.  If it helps Extremadura had got its first plants and were producing 39.4mw that year.  Cantabira produced 35.3 and the Balearics 3.7mw.









Tomorrow we crawl towards Aragon.


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