Red Eléctrica de España, Spain's electricity grid operator, has released a preliminary report announcing that in 2013 the single largest source of power in Spain was wind.
Meeting a total 21.1% of the nation's electricity demand, wind farms outshone nation's nuclear reactors which provided a mere 21%.
Moreover, when combined with solar and hydroelectric power, renewables were able to provide a total of 49.1% of Spain's total electricity output, an impressive feat when you consider the United States only draws a bare 12% from renewable sources. All this reliance on renewable energy has, in turn, allowed the nation to decrease the carbon output of its energy sector by 23.1% in a single year."
[Source: here.]
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