A few days after it was reported that Germany was producing so much electricity that prices began to slide below zero, Portugal set a new benchmark for renewable energy. She managed to power the entire country for four days in a row exclusively with electricity obtained from renewable energy sources. The CEO of SolarPower Europe told The Guardian that today it is seen as a remarkable achievement, but the trend is moving so fast towards the use of renewable energy that it is only a matter of a couple of years when Europe will be entirely powered by it alone , an environmentally friendly resource.
While less than a month ago, Germany managed to produce so much electricity that it was its own prices actually turned negative, it is Portuguese managed to set up a few days later a new milestone in renewable energy - for four days in a row, the country exclusively used electricity obtained from renewable energy sources. For several years, Portugal has been trying to reduce the extraction of energy from fossil fuels and focus more on sustainable energy sources.
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Three years ago, as much as one half of all electricity in Portugal was obtained from fuels and as much as one third from nuclear power plants. Last year, the production of electricity from renewable sources was increased by half. The achievement they achieved this May is all the more admirable considering their past ways of operating. It's Portugal set an example, that where there's a will, there really is a way, and that it's possible to get out of the status quo when a person (or the country) wants to quickly.
