{"id":25608,"date":"2022-01-07T12:53:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T12:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imeg.pt\/?p=25608"},"modified":"2022-01-07T14:20:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T14:20:05","slug":"renovaveis-abasteceram-59-do-consumo-de-eletricidade-em-portugal-no-ano-passado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imeg.pt\/en\/renovaveis-abasteceram-59-do-consumo-de-eletricidade-em-portugal-no-ano-passado\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewables supplied 59% of electricity consumption in Portugal last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"entry__lead\">Renewable energy supplied 59% of electricity consumption in Portugal in 2021, of which 26% was wind power, 27% hydroelectric, 7% biomass and 3.5% photovoltaic.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Renewable energy production supplied 59% of electricity consumption in Portugal in 2021, especially wind power, which accounted for 26%, while non-renewable production supplied 31%, according to data from REN, released this Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">According to REN - Redes Energ\u00e9ticas Nacionais, of the 59% of electricity consumption supplied by renewable energy sources last year, 26% was wind power, 27% hydroelectric, 7% biomass and 3.5% photovoltaic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">In the case of photovoltaic solar energy, although it continued to be the least significant of all renewables, REN highlighted its sharp growth (37%) compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">As for the 31% of electricity consumption supplied by non-renewable energy production in 2021, 29% is coal, with the last plant closed at the end of November (Pego, in Abrantes) accounting for less than 2%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The remaining 10% corresponds to imports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<a href='https:\/\/eco.sapo.pt\/2022\/01\/04\/renovaveis-abasteceram-59-do-consumo-de-eletricidade-em-portugal-no-ano-passado\/' class='small-button smallblack'>Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A energia renov\u00e1vel abasteceu 59% do consumo de eletricidade em Portugal em 2021, sendo que destes 26% correspondem a energia e\u00f3lica, 27% a hidroel\u00e9trica, 7% a biomassa e 3,5% a fotovoltaica. &nbsp; A produ\u00e7\u00e3o de energia renov\u00e1vel abasteceu 59% do consumo de eletricidade em Portugal em 2021, com destaque para a\u00a0energia e\u00f3lica, que representou 26%, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imeg.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imeg.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imeg.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imeg.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imeg.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imeg.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imeg.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imeg.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imeg.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imeg.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}