Spain is a leader in renewables, but around 90% of its electricity grid is saturated.
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Spain is a leader in renewables, but around 90% of its electricity grid is saturated.
In Spain, electro-intensive industry had to be halted to save the grid seven times in ten weeks when wind dropped.
Spain wastes 11% of its solar energy because the grid is unable to absorb it.
This summer Spain curtailed an amount of electricity equal to the consumption of 4 million households.
The regulation enters into force on 1 July.
The regulation adopted today reduces steel import quotas by half.
Today nuclear power represents only 15% of European electricity, compared to nearly a third in 1990.