In March, Portugal Made More Than Enough Renewable Energy To Power The Whole Country

April 5, 2018btollesonRSS Sample

A wind farm in Sobral de Monte Agraco, Portugal, in August 2015. The windy hills north of Lisbon, once filled with grain windmills, are being increasingly populated with wind turbines.

The country produced renewable power equal to 103.6 percent of mainland Portugal’s electrical demand — a feat “unmatched in the last 40 years,” the Portuguese Renewable Energy Association says.

(Image credit: Armando Franca/AP)