Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia & the Democratic Republic of Congo now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy. A further 40 countries generated at least 50% of their electricity from renewable sources. #ShareGoodNewsToowww.independent.co.uk/tech/renewab...
Cool to read about progress, but one caveat about these data:
"[...] produced more than 99.7 per cent of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, *hydro*, solar or wind power."
Hydroelectric power is renewable, but it can be very environmentally destructive locally.
Great news. But this is also what bugs me about lack of action on climate change. It's so clear going full renewable is feasible. We just need willpower. It's purely whores for the fossil fuel industry that stop us. How about we take some of the $800B we spend on weapons n put it to something useful
The act Biden signed last week giving several billion to improving the power grid is going to do wonders on that for USA. California can power most of the country w/ the solar it’s already producing, it’s just trapped off the grid. So I’ve been impressed recently on how fast even the US is moving
There are more than 7 countries coloured on the map. 7 are at 100% the coloured ones are at 60%+ with the darker the green representing a higher share of renewables. Canada is at 67.58% according to the interactive map in the article (hover over a green country and get the percentage).
60% of Canada's power comes from hydroelectric dams (largely in northern Quebec) and a chunk of the rest comes from wind power. Nukes are largely just in Ontario but their power mix is still 30% dams.
