8 countries now generate over 99% of their electricity from renewable energy
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I have 50 Rooftop Solar Panels for 2 Houses. In Groningen Nederland. Make a lot of Money. No Energy Bill for 12 years now. People save Money with Rooftop Solar, no Gas.
When will you replace those solar panels? And what will that cost?
@@TheBooban Solar panels have 25 years warranty (I installed them at my home, too).
@@TheBooban 50 panels at 100 Euro (and dropping) a piece is 5K euros. They last 25 years, that's 200 Euros per year. I'm also from NL, have 10 panels and make 800 euros a year (after my own energy usage has been deducted). Generally in NL you recoop your investment within 3 years (I did). And those numbers are assuming that the energy prices will stay the same; when they rise, you recoop even faster.
Well, if they do, it's because they save paying an artificially inflated price for electricity, while others do pay the inflated price and/or they're not paying their fair share into keeping electricity available for consumption 24/7.
I would love to do this in the United States, but for some reason we can't just order the solar panels ourselves and install them.We have to be under a contract with a company by law
Canada Quebec province has been 99% renewable energy for many years. Mainly hydro and now added wind few years ago and scaling up. One of the cheapest electricity price in the world.
Hydro. That’s it right there. Knew there was a traditional source in there.
Like Tasmania as a part of Australia has huge hydro
I doubt Quebec has 99% renewable energy. Nowhere near probably....
I doubt that very much. Electricity from renewable sources perhaps, but 99% renewable energy? No certainly not. How do you guys drive over there? What do you heat your houses with in winter?
@@hvh377 Electricity generation it says can't you read? It does NOT include gasoline/natueral gas duh........heat their homes with electricity. You need a new renewable brain.
87% of electricity in British Columbia Canada is from hydro-electric generation, and that number will be over 90% when the site-c generator comes online; 0% is from coal or nuclear.
No one would have done this to "save the planet", it's just cheaper and dropping in price while other methods continue to go up in cost. Adding storage is going to make these new methods very stable and easy to manage. The world we be awash in battery production soon and grid storage will begin to roll out. It's the combination of cars and grid storage that has given battery makers confidence to scale up.
Thanks Tesla!
VIKING YOU FORGOT COSTA RICA weve been doing that for over a decade!
I was going to bring up Costa Rica too but I saw your comment first.
Unfortunately last year Costa Rica increased its use of diesel, due to the drop in water levels available for Hydro. Out bills have just increased mainly because of the cost of burning that diesel. Unfortunately when you couple that with ICE's latest DISINCENTIVES for solar installations, Costa Rica is destined to slip down the chart, rather than maintain its lofty heights. It's such a shame and a typical short sighted approach to power generation. One of the sunniest countries in Central America, with great Solar potential is being denied its ability to be self sufficient because of the incestuous relationship between ICE (the ironically named Electric Company) and their master, the government.
Yes, but Costa Rica has no heavy industry, which uses masses of energy. Great for lights and the little fridge but can'r do heavy stuff.
@@jgarbo3541 Are you serious, or are you trying to be funny?
@@simonpaine2347 When I was there all I saw were dilettantes in short skirts (with grey eyes), no industry, except "Fincas".
Installed 13.2 kW solar PV system in 2012 and two Powerwall batteries in 2018, and have been net positive for 12+ years now exporting ~50% of our excess solar back to grid and actually operate as a microgrid for 8+ months of the year in Edmonds, WA. Thanks for doing positive stories like this. Love your channel/content!
How much did you spend on all those solar panels and batteries?
I'm surprised that Costa Rica is not on your list.
On the IEA website that you cite in the video, it shows that Costa Rica produced ~100% of its electricity through renewable generation.
72.9% Hydro
12.6% Geothermal
12.4% Wind
1.5% Biofuels
0.64% Solar
Man Costa Rica punches above its weight. They have better health outcomes than many places in the USA, for what 1/50th, of the cost? Great coffee too. ;^)
Unfortunately last year Costa Rica increased its use of diesel, due to the drop in water levels available for Hydro. Out bills have just increased mainly because of the cost of burning that diesel. Unfortunately when you couple that with ICE's latest DISINCENTIVES for solar installations, Costa Rica is destined to slip down the chart, rather than maintain its lofty heights. It's such a shame and a typical short sighted approach to power generation. One of the sunniest countries in Central America, with great Solar potential is being denied its ability to be self sufficient because of the incestuous relationship between ICE (the ironically named Electric Company) and their master, the government.
I'd love to see a yearly updated list for renewable electricity share in all countries of the world!
The naysayers - most of them fossil fuel industry sponsored or inspired - said that it was impossible. Whereas, converting to 100% renewable electricity, and then, (virtually) 100% renewable power is technically the lowest hanging fruit of the urgent challenge of environmental sustainability. That’s not to say that it is ‘easy.’ The only real barrier is political - to overcome the fossil fuel industry disinformation, and most significantly: to circumvent the fossil fuel funded political class - e.g. Putin’s Russia, Saudi Arabia etc.. Whether those states will give up their addiction to fossil fuel money is another matter altogether, as so many of them are on the dysfunctional spectrum.
And of the seven countries that made 99+%, FIVE were due purely to hydroelectric, ONE was due purely to hydroelectric and geothermal, and NONE of them got more than 4% total from wind and solar. In other words, the common denominator was unique geography which does NOT translate to other countries. The same situation applies to Norway, with about 10% from combined wind and solar, and about 88% from hydroelectricity.
So the big takeaway from this video is live in a country with lots of hydroelectricity.
@@dzcav3 Excellent. That’ll do nicely while they build up solar and wind capacity.
8 countries that most of whom get their electricity from hydro and aren’t industrialized.
Atleast they are exporting surplus electricity
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been told that it’s not possible to run a grid without gas or coal…. Not possible until people start doing it, I guess.
Tell that to Brazil. It's been using renewables (hydropower) as its electric grid cornerstone since at least the early 80s, if not earlier.
@@FabioCapelaHydro is base load and constant, just like coal and gas and nuclear and geothermal. Wind and solar are both intermittent which are not suitable for grid supply by themselves. Gas and batteries and to a lesser extent hydro are fast start peakers. A grid requires peakers for grid stability. Otherwise load shedding, brownouts, generation shut-downs, equipment damage and long power cuts
Costa Rica has had 99% renewable energy for years as well
I doubt it. For most countries, their electricity use is a small fraction of their energy use. I will believe there is a short list of countries who actually have their electricity almost entirely from renewable sources, but I doubt there are any countries actually using 100% renewable energy.
@@hvh377 F****ng entitled opinionists are destroying democracies in the world. FIND THE FACTS! Only facts matter, not your useless opinion
@@hvh377if you doubt it, then google it, is a fact, might have been missed by Vikings because we've been doing it for the longest
@@hvh377it is quite obvious that we are talking here of electricity generation, not of the entire energy usage… at least not yet!
Unfortunately last year Costa Rica increased its use of diesel, due to the drop in water levels available for Hydro. Out bills have just increased mainly because of the cost of burning that diesel. Unfortunately when you couple that with ICE's latest DISINCENTIVES for solar installations, Costa Rica is destined to slip down the chart, rather than maintain its lofty heights. It's such a shame and a typical short sighted approach to power generation. One of the sunniest countries in Central America, with great Solar potential is being denied its ability to be self sufficient because of the incestuous relationship between ICE (the ironically named Electric Company) and their master, the government.
I’ve travel the USA. I’ve observed the last two years large solar fields built everywhere. The latest one is in West Memphis Arkansas is possibly 2 square miles in size. Government subsidies funded for sure!
They dont need subsidies, unlike the vast subsidies that oil gets, as solar is so cheap and profitable
Annual US subsidy of petrol and co: somewhere between 10-50B. The tax code is full of such subsidies and the amount depends on how you interpret it. Globally its estimated that subsidies of petrol fuel are about 7% of world GDP in 2022 (an increase from previous years). US subsidy of ALL renewables were about 15B in 2022. About 70-80% of global subsidies are for fossil fuels according to the International Renewable Energy Agency, the remaining 20-30% is for renewables.
Last year I drove 4 hours from my location to visit my daughter in Savannah, GA. I was amazed how many solar farms were there compared to when last I made the trip. I have always said, Solar is the biggest no brainer in the history of man. However in the US politics over takes science and the drum beat is still drill baby drill - I just don't get it. We use to lead the world in innovation now we lead in conspiracies and donor based politics. Nice to see the rest of the world moving forward in a positive energy way to save the planet.
Return on investment for solar farms is 10-20%
@@FredPlanatia Indeed, and add unpriced externalities as yet another subsidy for petroleum.
That's fantastic news! It's so encouraging to see the global shift towards renewable energy gaining momentum. It's a testament to our collective efforts in prioritizing sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint. Knowing that eight countries have reached this milestone is not only inspiring but also serves as a beacon of hope for others to follow suit. It's a reminder that with determination and innovation, we can create a brighter, greener future for generations to come.
Heat pumps and electric cars are cheap then too, if you use solar. But even without PV my electric car cost sbout u Euro/100 kilometers in my country Germany.
These 8 countries that generate over 99% electricity from renewable energy need to go EV then that will be protecting there GDP. For instant If Australia converts to 100% EV we improve our GDP by app $24 Billion as we import most of our Fossil Fuel.
Yes. Ethiopia banned import ICE Cars. EV Only. Australia can do that. Make 24 Billion Dollars a Year.
It would be better if you were making EVs domestically, but since you’re already importing all new cars it won’t hurt too much to accelerate that with more new EVs phasing out old ICE cars at a faster rate then natural replacement of the car fleet.
@@willeisinga2089Ethiopia has one of the lowest car ownership rate in the world, around 2 cars for every 1000 inhabitants. Car ownership is limited to the ruling elite and if they want to buy more expensive EVs it will just mean more of their fellow citizens will go hungry
@@willeisinga2089I'm not sure whether switching to renewable energy sources worldwide is helping Australia's GDP in the long run. Australia's -number 1- number 2 (after iron ore) export product is coal.
@@hvh377 Our number one is iron ore , number two is coal , for making steel and electricity...and it will remain in demand for decades to come.
Costa Rica!!!
Okay this is a bit of an unfair stat and needs clarity: Dams, Dams, Dams
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Dams are the forgotten renewable energy source that has been around for hundred of years. Some countries are blessed with viable hydrio schemes and most are not.
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Here is a crazy stat: In the Canadian province of Quebec, 100% of their energy comes from Dams. They do have a few Wind farms and solar farms where energy transmission is to expensive from the Dams. Aberta is the Canadian leading province in Renewable Wind and Solar but for all their amazing progress in Wind and Solar they still get 97% of their energy from carbon emitting oil, gas and coal burning.
Small countries, with huge hydroelectric power resources, of course they can make 90%. Scale is the challenge.
Respect Mother Nature...She will always win💯✌️😬👍
Well done to the countries doing this, and I hope to see many more added to the list in the next few years.
In recent weeks, Portugal has produced more renewable electricity than it consumes. Portugal even exports electricity to Spain because it produces too much with the help of dams.
Some gas-fired power stations continue to produce marginally for technical reasons, but everything the Portuguese consume comes from renewable sources.
And the prices of these renewables are so low that producers are already worried because they sell clean electricity at very low prices.
As for Norway "Hydropower is still the mainstay of the Norwegian electricity system. At the beginning of 2023, there were 1 769 hydropower plants in Norway, with a combined installed capacity of 33 691 MW. In a normal year, the Norwegian hydropower plants produce 136.49 TWh, which is about 88% of Norway’s total power production."
Not much options for expanding hydropower so to decarbonise the whole economy there needs to be more solar, wind and maybe nuclear.
I hope we build a bunch of floating wind power plants around the old existing oil rigs. Some of them even have a beefy electricity cable to land already, so good opportunity to reuse infrastructure.
There’s even talk of sending hydrogen rather than natural gas to Germany over existing pipes (for industry, not for cars)
@@auspiciouslywild H2 needs to be generated in place for industry. Transporting it makes no sense, nor does building new nuclear.
While it's easier for these smaller countries to get to this place,
it will be much more effective when the big population countries start to get near this percentage.
Effective at what ?
It's just a matter of scale, bigger countries have more land to play with, there's no technical reason why they can't do the same, it's just a matter of having the political will to make it happen, but either way, over the next decade or so, we are likely going to get some bigger countries generating most if not all the electrical energy, especially in Europe by renewable means.
Anyway, renewables has never really been the issue, having a buffer with batteries is where it gets complicated, you need a big enough energy storage as renewables is inconsistent.
well these are just lies by omission, for instance it is true that Congo gets 96% of it's electricity from two hydroelectric dams but less than 10% of the population in Congo has access to electricity and in the energy mix of Congo the hydro power is just 2.5%. So, yes, they have electricity from renewables but is not a lot and is from hydro which is a century old method and those dams are there from 1972 and 1982 respectively, so , they are not there because some green deal, they were built before.
Brazil should cross the 90% renewables threshold this year, and is planning to reach 95% renewables in the next few years as fossil fuel thermal power (gas and coal) that is used mostly as backup generation in case of droughts (as most of Brazil's electricity is hydropower) gets phased out. It's a pretty big country.
China generates about 40% of its electricity without fossil fuels (i.e., from renewables plus nuclear), but at the rate China is installing new renewable generation this should change fairly quickly; three years ago only 30% of China's electricity wasn't generated from fossil fuels, and the rate of change seems to be accelerating. And any change in the carbon intensity of China's power generation has a huge effect, as China is, by far, the country that generates and uses the most electricity in the world (though if you measure electricity used per capita it's still well below the developed countries).
California has set a new record by going for several months now on electricity only from renewables.
California has 39 million people, and uses a lot of energy.
New car sales are also over 25% BEV.
The UK generates quite a lot of green electricity but we still rely for 75% on total energy used on fossil fuels. Heating and transportation is almost exclusively fossil fuelled.
From next year heat pumps will be required on all new builds in the UK, so things are starting to move in the right direction, despite Sunak’s best efforts to throw climate action into reverse.
@@philiptaylor7902 I think that edict has been postponed. I have an air heat pump. It is great. But the MSM is fighting tooth and nail to preserve gas boilers. The truth is we don't have enough wind farms and the National Grid is insufficient to transport the electricity - even if we had it. Unfortunately wind farms have tripled in cost in the last 5 years so there is little prospect of rapidly moving away from fossil fuels. I think the UK will be reliant on fossil fuels for another 20 years minimum. For this reason we should exploit the North Sea and frack in preference to buying off Saudi Arabia or some other pariah State.
Do the live stream with Uncle Tony!
It would be so helpful if you could link to the reports that you cite, otherwise it's just your words, opinions or interpretations.
Yes, these near ground wind turbines would work perfectly on a windmill. To do the integration you just have to see how it can help about the traditional windmill faster. Yes the vertical windmill can help move the horizontal windmill. So both can work together making both stronger and they can produce lots of energy even when there's almost no wind... But you have to integrate them where they help each other moves. Push pull system.
Sounds bloody great
Here in Canada we have so much renewable hydropower that we have surely been exporting more than our total consumption for decades now. Quebec and Labrador have been our A team there but here in Ontario, Niagara falls really got the whole electricity thing going for the world, now didn't it?
Unlike many countries on that list, we are an advanced economy and have been for quite some time now
California is still dependent on electricity imported from other states. California Energy Commission figures for 2022 show 204,049 GWh produced in state, imports from neighbouring states were 93,483 GWh.
This channel is so good and upbeat!
According to the Scottish Government, renewable technologies generated the equivalent of 113% of Scotland’s overall electricity consumption in 2022, new statistics show.
A lot of great engineering from Scotland over the years. That's why they made Scotty Scottish in the original Star Trek.
Wind is great for now but I think it will diminish to solar over time. Windmills are mechanical, PV is not. Just like ICE vs. BEV, the less mechanical the more opportunity for steep cost declines. Solar will just be much cheaper and use fewer resources. Batteries are very important, as well.
Not at all. Wind and solar are very complementary. We need both.
@@Simon-dm8zv Why if solar is way cheaper and we have more than enough very cheap stationary storage? It's like hydro...good for now but too expensive and environmentally harmful to keep around in a decade or so.
Rooftop solar is the only investment returning a tax free 10% return (often much higher), backed up by a 20-25 year panel warranty and equipment is secured by homeowners insurance. If you could buy a bond that payed out a tax free interest rate of 10% for 20-25years and was 100% insured from loss, most asset allocators would take that option for a portion of their portfolio. It’s a great investment (I’ve done it 2x on two homes) and it just keeps getting better every year ignoring the tax incentive savings entirely. Don’t like making or saving money? Don’t do it.
Add an EV to a solar powered home (even partially solar) and you supercharge that tax free 10% return to include gas savings. After all, you are getting electricity at 50% or less than what the utilities are selling it for and you’ve locked in your electricity cost for 20-25 (or more) years at some % so you don’t have to worry about opec changing oil prices. An EV saves thousands of dollars over gasoline each year so the 10% return from solar panels can easily jump to a tax free 20% or more. And who wouldn’t want to own their own gas station with a tax free ROI?
🌅Very clear explanation of Solar PV R.O.I. I add 1. it's also 'Positive Cash Flow' from day 1! 2. After payoff of initial investment, it's Profit!💰 For the owner of the source of their energy, Nothing beats free 'fuel' energy source!🗽
This only works in certain locations and includes huge tax subsidies.
@@dzcav3 subsidies are irrelevant to the returns - add those in an the returns are far greater, in the 15% range. But it does not work in perhaps 15% of populated areas, and it wasn’t designed to. But they do use it in Antarctica, so there’s something.
As a Norwegian, i wonder where the 1,6% made from fossil fuel comes from? Smaler generators at off-grid building sites? Surplus electrisity imported at night, from coal powered or nucular plants outside Norway? Or is it the smal coal powered plant at the Svalbard islands, delivering electricity to the 2417 souls living at 78 degre north in Longyearbyen, that are close to the northpole, and where it is total darknes for 4 months every winter. On 19 of October 2023 the coal powered powerstation was shut down and replaced with a new one runing on Diesel.
URUGUAY is 99% too!
Depleted oil wells are a potential source of geothermal energy. Many deep wells already encounter significant ground heat. By drilling the abandoned oil wells deeper and using fracking, water can be pumped down one well and evacuated by a nearby well. It's a new technology that needs development effort. The geothermal heat is down there - no question about that. Texas is a location of this type of research.
A concern is the hot water can be corrosive which can cause high ongoing maintenance cost.
The best geothermsl sites in the U.S. are west of the Missisippi river, often where water needed for this type of project is a limited resource, but the water need not be potable. The material from below can be a pollutant so handling spills is a potential environmental cost.
Forget fracking, it's downright dangerous. Here in western Canada it's used by fossil fuel chasers to force upthe very dredges of old and obsolete wells causing earthquakes and trouble , which the industry then works toignore and deny.
THANKS SAM 🤗 FOR SHARING THE GREAT NEWS…WHAT ABOUT COSTA RICO 🤔💚💚💚
South Africa is not mentioned as well, in fact, we are forgotten too
I don't know where the stat "90% of world lives on the sunbelt." Most of China is not on the Sunbelt, Japan, Russia, Korea, Northern Europe etc About 90% of the world's population live above the equator. Maybe that is where the stat is coming from.
I was wondering about that. You missed the northern US BTW and anyone living north of them.
It's a vague term thrown out by solar advocates to imply that most of the world could run off of solar electricity. In reality, many places are cloudy, and not suitable for economical solar energy. Peter Zeihan has global maps on his website that shows where solar and wind are actually economically viable.
Spain, the sunniest country in Europe lags behind the UK and Germany in solar power thanks to our conservative governments that tune the market to please the energy oligopoly.
Even so, more and more days electicity prices are negative. Sadly, electrification of transport is marginal.
A shame.
The UK set a new record for carbon intensity on April 15th this year - 19gCO2/kWh (just for an hour, sure).
In 2008, 495g/kWh was normal.
So there are new ways to improve energy generating capabilities from existing windmill. That even with no wind the windmill runs.... And capturing other things like static energy and many other forms of energy. And yes, at the top of the windmill, having solar panels, even the shaft of the windmill can be wrapped in solar panels. Even if you have horizontal and vertical working together, that's when they're wind.Then my system works when there's no wind and the solar panels wrapped around the shaft and at top and maybe on the blades can further generate energy.....
I think you left out Costa Rica..... 99.8% renewable electricity in 2020...
Great job to these countries.
Albania - 99+% hydro
Bhutan - 99+% hydro
Nepal - 99+% hydro
Paraguay - 99+% hydro
Iceland - 70% hydro. Only other major contributor geothermal.
Ethiopia - 96% hydro, 4% wind
DRC - 96% hydro. Other sources were too small to be noted. A sad footnote is the bulk of DRC's "renewable" energy is from the burning of biomass, which produces as much CO2 equivalent as the dirtiest coal. Also, 19% of the population has access to electricity. The government hopes to increase this percentage to 32% by 2030.
Biomass can be an issue if you are cutting down vegetation or growing crops in order to feed the biomass power generation.
If you are using biomass waste - like, for example, bio residue from processing crops - then it's effectively carbon-free power, because if the waste was instead discarded it would generate the same CO2 emissions as it decomposed anyway.
@FabioCapela you're not wrong. The co2 emissions remain the same, and from what I can conclude from the reporting, the biomass in this case is primarily charcoal for cooking and heating. Which brings up many non climate change concerns for the people locally.
@@carrdoug99 That, unfortunately, equates to cutting down vegetation, making it very environmentally *un*friendly. And yeah, charcoal for cooking and heating can be dangerous for a number of reasons, including how it generates enough carbon monoxide to be dangerous in enclosed spaces.
@FabioCapela 1st thing I thought of when I learned this was what does the TB Incident rate look like. No surprise, it's very high.
The most important thing is to locate yourself in a low-population country with huge amounts of dammable rivers available. The rest of the planet is not so fortunate.
So that is why it is important that business and individuals invest in solar with battery storage systems themselves. It will relieve the grid of the massive growth a country need to keep up with demand.
Please be carefull on your statements. Reaching 100% of electric energy demand is not the same as reaching 100% energy demand. A huge part of the energy demand in these countries is not electric energy, it is for heating and for combustion in ICE.
Then it would not sound so good.
What about island nations?
Theoretically they could switch faster, right?
I heard a lot about Costa Rica. But I expect people who pass through to reach Panama would mean Panama would also go renewable at roughly the same time.
A note on the report about California being 100% renewable for 25 out of 32 days (the number of days varies by news agency). The renewables involved, of course, were hydro, geothermal, wind & solar. The headline is quite misleading. From the report. "Supply exceeded demand for 0.25 (15 minutes) to 6 hours per day). There was no day when renewables supplied 100% of supply for an entire day (or even close to it).
Don't forget that in many of these countries electricity is only a part of overall energy usage. For example, in the UK, I consume 10 x more kWh of gas in my home for heating and cooking than the kWh of electricity.
And exactly that's the reason why heating should be done by Heatpumps, they save up to 85% Energy, same for electric cars, every EV on the road reduces primary energy consumption by twice as much as the EV itself needs.
@@chriswilliams8607 Yep. A lot of energy is used to pump oil, transport it, refine, transport and distribute the resulting fuel, and finally pump it into a car; shutting down the part of the oil industry that handles gasoline and diesel for cars (and perhaps trucks) would save an unbelievable amount of electricity and shipping fuel.
If I remember correctly, someone once did the math and if we decommissioned all installations used by the oil industry and used their area for solar and wind it would cover most of the global energy need, including the energy needs for sea and air transport when we finally get to electrifying those sectors.
I don't have gas, nor oil. Buy a heat pump.
@@Muppetkeeper I'm not rich like you.
@@FabioCapela absolutely correct!
Electrical energy is only 16% of UK energy use, solar and wind is less than 4% of world energy use.
Solars big problem is ot puts out much less in the winter than the summer. That statement on California is very misleading since they ran on 100% solar for a few hours per day not entire days.
Misleading? I’ve seen multiple articles supporting this statement on California and makes sense.. can you show media otherwise?
@@smalldogstudio I would suggest the EIA website, where you can get relatively impartial statistics, not the MSM solar fanboy headlines.
@smalldogstudio You can find it online. However, just think about it there is no way solar provides power at night. So it only provided 100% during peak solar output which was about 6 hours per day
So summer when there is air conditioning demand it puts out more, than winter when there is less AC demand. OK.
Can also put on rooftop solar which simultaneously reduces AC requirements for the building it is on.
Sorry this problem has already been assessed and dealt with by engineers and it turns out it is not a problem.
@5353Jumper As we push to go all electric EVs and heating will increase nighttime electric use. Especially during winter when solar output is diminished. My solar averages over 50 kwh per day in June/July and around 6 in December
Thank you
I think that is just counting electricity. Many heat their homes with NG and they are unlikely to tear out their hearing systems for electric heat anytime soon.
Title says electricity. Not power.
We did in December. We now have a heat pump.
@@paulgoffin8054 most won’t do that since NG is so cheap
@@eddiegill Most are being told by the oil industry sponsored press not to do it.
We had a non condensing boiler before and the heat pump is definitely cheaper to run. Different if you have one of the good condensing gas boilers with weather compensation like the Veissman ones.
That's true, but with EV cars and heat pumps taking off in a big way, it ends up replacing oil and gas with electricity for most of our needs.
So as long as renewable energy generating is going higher as a percentage of all energy whiles we dump a lot more on it with EV's and heat pumps, then it's only a matter of time before fossil fuels get pushed out.
Uruguay is also now over 98%!
This is a good pub quiz question.
All seven countries have little to no industry and with the exception of Iceland their domestic energy consumption per capita is very low. Paraguay has the Iguazú falls for hydro, Iceland has geothermal energy. I think the percentage quoted is for the electricity grid, transportation is not included and is mostly fossil fuel- based.
It's almost all hydroelectric, with a dash of geothermal for Iceland. This is nothing new. Solar and wind are barely blips for those countries.
What's also interesting is the green foliage that grows around the base of these solar panels.
They have to wash them. So i guess thats why.
@@TheBooban At our local solar plant they have the goats coming in once in a while. And the funny thing was , a Conservative local Minister of parliament thought the solar plant was bankrupt and put that in her media release. The stupid women never checked to get her facts right.
Ahh yes of course. Some of them seem to be acting like greenhouses in the dryer regions, offering shade to microorganisms, undergrowth and small creatures.
Maybe an opportunity to grow turf or others for lawns and sports fields.
Vegetation below the solar panels helps control the panel temperature and actually increases power generation. Not to mention that if you space the panels a bit more than usual, losing roughly 20% of the panel ground coverage (and, thus, produced energy), the area below the panels receives enough sunlight that it can be used to grow certain crops, including pasture for grazing animals, with almost as much productivity as if the panels weren't there (an arrangement called agrivoltaics).
The average US home consumes 30 KWH per day. A backup storage battery of 10 KWH would suffice as a restricted use power source or as a supplement when the grid is maxed out.
We use 15 to 25kw a day, and 1 powerwall2 is nowhere near enough, so upper solar to 20kw this week, will get second battery too.
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You need to include Tesla in your robotics list. All of the other manufacturers are going to have trouble scaling production. Tesla can get to 1M/yr in 18-24 months. They're solving actuator production now.
This is so great to see.
But these 2 gentlemen could work with you to creative revolutionary.New system for windmills and can be applied to existing windmills converting them into a multi source Generation system.
Scotland too. Even though we're part of the UK. We are a country.
Costa Rica? In 2016 they were at 98%! I thought by now it would have hit 100%. 65% was from Hydro electric and the balance was from geothermal and wind. I thought they might add a bit more geo thermal and that would do it. What has happened?
Great job norway !
Even if the climate change doom stories are wrong (and I don’t think that they are) this trend is giving each country energy independence and rapidly reducing pollution, so its win win (or wind wind)!
And of the seven countries that made 99+%, FIVE were due purely to hydroelectric, ONE was due purely to hydroelectric and geothermal, and NONE of them got more than 4% total from wind and solar. In other words, the common denominator was unique geography which does NOT translate to other countries. The same situation applies to Norway, with about 10% from combined wind and solar, and about 88% from hydroelectricity.
So the big takeaway from this video is live in a country with lots of hydroelectricity.
I'd like to know more about this Ethiopia stat. Their population is 127 million. So that's quite a feat.
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It is so exciting!!
Norway uses hydro power, import some and export some power. Not so much wind power and that is mainly because we have a group of people making noise and threats against wind power. Probably funded by the oil business. The demand of oil is in free fall and they are fighting to keep up the fight against all green power they can see. The newest thing is mentally illness due to have seen a wind mill. Demanding money for lower life quality than expected.
Uruguay, (my country) generates 98% of its electricity by renewables, so so close....
Crisp report Sam and glad to hear every word. WOW! Except for politics and warmongers everything appears to be becoming better for the future overall. 2024 is not going to be a pretty year methinks in respect of World-wide events. But glad to know there are folks out there shoring up energy accessibility and doing what they can to make our stressed-out planet a better place to be. All kudos to them.
The Canadian province of Alberta has the greatest wind power potential in the country. It is also the biggest producer of fossil fuel in the nation. Sadly, it ultra right wing government has put severe restrictions on the development of renewables, and the future of the industry is in doubt.
Danielle Smith is the biggest problem.
Alberta also has terrible restrictions on rooftop solar which is a blatant attempt to make it unviable for citizens and businesses so they stay reliant on grid provided electricity.
A good mix of renewables lessens the need for gigantean batteries.
Yep, just drive out all the industry that needs reliable energy and you can have 100% super-random energy generation.
If you can add Norway, you can add Costa Rica & make in 9 countries that run on renewables for 99% of the year. ;-)
Does some positive changes are seen on our climate of this?
Norway grows rich on oil and gas revenues
Uruguay has a good portion of their electricity from hydroelectric and wind.
Almost afternoon mate
Dogger Bank Windfarm isn't operational yet.
How far in the red are these countries? All this green energy isnt free. No one ever talks about maintence cost. I know an electrician who used to work 6 days a week, he looks after a small wind farm and now works 8 days a month and brings in much more money. How much does it cost to pay the rent for the land where all solar and wind farms are located. Why is the most expensive cost per unit is in South Australia where they are almost 100% renewable?
Right now wind and solar power is cheaper than coal and gas power in most of the world even when coupled with battery storage. And yeah, that does include the land lease.
One nice thing about solar is that you can still use the land below the panels. A parking lot covered in solar panels, for example, still serves as a parking lot (and a better one as it offers shade). A house covered in solar panels is still a house. You can even grow crops below solar panels (though it does require spacing them more than usual).
Incidentally, South Australia has enough roof mounted solar panels to cover 100% of its electricity needs during part of the day from that source alone; almost half of the houses have rooftop solar there.
Also, some of those countries reached close to 100% renewables with hydropower; at least Paraguay did, and AFAIK Norway also makes heavy use of hydropower. Hydropower is limited in where it can be used and has large upfront costs, but in the long term is one of the cheapest ways to generate electricity; back in the 70s it was already cheaper, on the long run, than gas and coal (which is why, for example, Brazil - a country with plentiful sites for hydropower - never took coal and gas power seriously).
@@FabioCapela “. . . a naïve observer might conclude that the rising share of new renewables (solar and wind) will usher in an era of falling electricity prices. But in reality, the opposite has been true.” Vaclav Smil, Numbers Don’t Lie, p.172
For all the countries discussed in the video, almost all the electricity comes from hydro, with a little geothermal from Iceland. Norway gets about 10% from wind. Outside of that, solar and wind are mere rounding errors. Solar and wind costs almost never include battery or other back-up costs suitable for a 24/7/365 grid, or increased transmission costs.
@@dzcav3 Hydropower has higher transmission costs than wind and solar, as there is far less freedom in where it's placed. Brazil's reliance on hydropower, for example, is why we built a grid so extensive and integrated that we can compensate for a sudden load increase in the extreme north of the country by increasing the power production at a hydropower dam two thousand miles to the south.
Which, incidentally, now makes adding wind and solar easy and cheap; we are already at over 20% of our electricity coming from wind and solar, and the plan is to keep increasing that until we shut down all our fossil fuel power plants in the next few years. We don't even need batteries to handle curtailment, as we can just lower the output of hydropower in real time - as it's a dispatchable source - to make way for the electricity from wind and solar, and conversely just ramp hydropower back up when wind and solar aren't producing enough.
Great news
You said in 5 years, Germany will be almost 100% renewable? April 2029 right? See you in 5.
How can solar be cheaper than wind when it only provides power for half the year? With overcapacity maybe two thirds of the year. The fair comparison would be solar with overcapacity and energy storage vs wind, and Im not so sure that then solar is really cheaper
Shhh! Don't mention that around here! :D
Yes, in non-sunbelt countries, solar goes hand-in-hand with gas, because we sometimes have periods of days or even weeks with no wind and little sun. The true cost of solar and wind in those countries really ought to reflect that, but it would be hard to calculate.
You're not sure because you've not looked for data.
You can find it out by googling the research and national reports but the Engineering with Rosie channel has done that work already.
Yes, solar and wind really are cheaper, even with the costs of backups.
@@tony0x48It 's _because_ you have gas to use as well, that solar is relatively cheap. It's when you have to take measures to fill the gaps when gas goes away, that solar (or renewable energy in general) becomes very expensive.
its not a competition by day. Its a question of what mix covers your needs most cost-effectively across the entire year. This surely depends on how much offgrid storage there is.
Wind farms are considered good if they return 30% over the course of a year. The power output is worked out over a year; I believe it is 30% of power output if it was running 24/7.
Someone please tell Dutton ffs
I am concerned that behind this enthusiasm about the wind and solar there is insufficient funding for the development of more promising forms of clean energy. As example, for the deep geothermal drilling. Anywhere below our feet at a depth of 20 km the temperature is 500 C, enough to generate overheated steam. 99% of the Earth is hotter than 1000C and this heat is an inexhaustible energy for any possible number of people on Earth and will last for billions of years, longer than the Sun itself.
Pretty easy when your country is the size of a state in the USA and your population is the size of just one major city in the US.
Alaska is a the size of Western Europe.
@kokofan50 Yes, but you are splitting hairs here.
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Windmills are *monsters!*
- #DonCHEETOxote Trump.
And they cause cancer. :)
world biggest Solar park in india Bhadla Solar Park is the largest solar farm in the world years 2020
until 1 hailstorm hits it.
Hypocrites all over the world
wind power is trash. to many moving parts and maintenance involved for the output. if you are gonna have that many moving parts, it needs to have the output of hydro to be reasonable.
We need more nuclear power plants they don't take alot of space, we need farming land for food, not windmills!!
Offshore wind is not taking away farmland. And even a windfarm could coexist with farmland. The windmills don't throw that big a shadow. That said, responsible nuclear (including well-defined plans for waste disposal) should probably be part of the mix.
@@FredPlanatia Disruption from pounding turbines into the seafloor and laying cable, causing death or dislocation to animals on the floor and in the water column. Harm from the tremendous noise of hammering the turbines, especially to ecolocation species like the North Atlantic right whale and cod, which vocalize during spawning.
No we don't. We need what is cost effective and can cover humanities requirements with respect to time. Nuclear in most cases is not cost effective. Wind and solar are far cheaper.
@@pkerry12 certainly there are environmental impacts from installing, operating and decommissioning offshore wind turbine farms just like there are environmental impacts of any other power generation. So both the planning and design should consider and minimize these impacts: for example by avoiding breeding grounds or by using gravity-based vs. pile-driven foundations. You have to ask hard questions when you discuss power generation. We should become more efficient with the power usage. We should consider what effects are less desirable. How much CO2 does a particular type of power generation create over its lifetime? What are the impacts of that CO2 on ecosystems? How about other types of disturbance such as sound generation? The risks of oil spills from offshore drilling. The risks of longterm storage of nuclear waste. Noone says its easy!
@@AORD72are u serious? u know how much power output a neclear power reactor has over a stupid single windmill? U would need 1000s of acres of land to buy for windmill farms. Neclear power plants don't need that much space and produce way more power.the
100% saving on imported fuel.
Never mind the savings on spare parts, oil, brake pads etc…
Big savings on less cancer treatments, allergies & asthma.
For countries with public healthcare, the savings from less treatment for car pollution caused diseases alone more than compensate for all lost revenue from fuel taxes.
To quote a headline from the left run news outlet Politco, regarding California - "Democrats pushed climate action then utility bills skyrocketed"
Don't blame Dems for the actions of greedy guys at PG&E. Want to bet the utility fee raisers are all GOP?
I guess we just have to Terra form Earth from here.
Ya even if your claim were true - Electricity is only 33% of the power used. ALL the rest is fossil fuels. Even Iceland that has all geothermal for electric and a lot of heating; they still have lots of fossil fuel used. Norway exports oil; but they do have a lot of hydro for electricity. Hydro dams are giant CO2 users; they take 20 million tons of concrete and 2 million tons of steel to build. Do you think Frances's nuclear power for electricity is zero CO2? Wrong; production of rare U235 uses massive amounts of mining then refining and then you have giant structures for cooling towers and containment; plus you have terrible side products like polonium.
What are the difference in annual costs for the new renewables vs using fossil fuels?
You can find that information in no time at the Web sites of organisations such as the IEA, Renew Economy and similar. It's old news now that renewables are cheaper and their cost continues to keep dropping. While fossil fuel based energy generation is increasing in cost.
@@BrentonSmythesfieldsaye “. . . a naïve observer might conclude that the rising share of new renewables (solar and wind) will usher in an era of falling electricity prices. But in reality, the opposite has been true.” Vaclav Smil, Numbers Don’t Lie, p.172
Costs for real-world electrical grids have to include transmission and back-up costs for the intermittent solar and wind.
@@dzcav3 Of course electricity prices are not going down. They have been going up and the reason is well understood within commerce and the energy sector. We are in a progressive systemic energy transition, not a scenario where all of a sudden we turn fossil fuels off, then magically switch on 100% renewable energy utopia and suddenly electrcity prices are cheaper. While we need to keep legacy fossil fuel generation going in what turns out to be unfavourable efficiency operating modes, while the renewable energy sector progresses and matures, the fossil fuel generation is going to add expense to it's production due to that inefficiency. This inefficiency cost of fossil fuel generation are having a negating effect on the cheap wholesale generation of renewable energy. That inefficiency cost is passed onto the consumer unsurprisingly. One of the required components of renewable energy systems is storage, which has catching up to do. Storage at scale has the ability to negate the need for fossil fuel based generation and hence cost can come down then.
This is well documented in energy sector business and assosciation organisations assessment and reporting literature all around the world. AEMO in Australia has explained this clearly on numerous ocassions. Vaclav is welcome to his perspective, everyone seems to have them, often while ignoring the actual operations on the ground.
On top of all that, what always gets dropped in these "cost" narratives, is that we have a serious problem to solve in everyones interest. By continually burning stuff we are not solving that problem, we are making it worse. For the last couple of centuries we have obviously been operating on credit and payment is now falling well overdue. People are sooking about that.
@@dzcav3 Refer to my previous post. The energy sector participants that I referred in part to, explains why costs are what they are at this time.
Great vid.
But not from solar or wind, Hydro electric.
One would be crazy not to wait and see bout the USGA identification of trillions of tons of hydrogen gas trapped in the ground. If that proves cheap to extract; solar, wind, hydro nothing will compete. You'd be a fool to invest in an expensive wind farm and find out that you could have used existing systems to use hydrogen and at far lower costs. Generally only governments would take such a risk; it isn't their money to waste.