Comments on: Spain Sets Wind Power Generation Record

By: Javi

Javi — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:57:35 +0000

Chris, don’t talk about you don’t know. The huge unemployment tax is because of the dependence of the construction and secondary sector, that once boosted spain’s economy now is the reason of a world crisis, mainly in spain where the mobiliary sector took a huge load due to speculation.

Energy industry did not cost any jobs.

By: styke

styke — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:52:41 +0000

As Chris mentions, Spain over-invested in green technology. It is a business. Underinvestment is bad and over-investment is bad. Also, opinions differ as to where the right cutoff is. That is one reason the government can’t really be involved. The government forces a “one size fits all” approach, which sucks for everyone.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:55:58 +0000

Spain’s investment in the Green Economy only cost them 20% unemployment. It cost them 2 private sector jobs for every green job they “created”.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:14:50 +0000

We´ve been travelling around Spain for the past 3 weeks and have been very impressed with the acres and acres of both solar and wind power generators we have seen. Our homeland – Australia – has NOTHING like the vast expanses of alternative energy generators on display here. Good on you Spain!

By: jes

jes — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:29:59 +0000

I think it is possible to do 100 percent now. But they probably don’t want to spend money on something that they feel is not the ultimate source of renewable energy. Technology is so volatile right now, that even as I type, better tech is being developed to upgrade new contraptions. Don’t you just hate it when you buy something then six months later some braniac puts an improvement on it that makes the old model seem less efficient or worst, obsolete.

By: RIF

RIF — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:57:46 +0000

Spain is doing really well in renewable energies. Beside this massive investment in wind Spain is also on the forefront in solar PV and solar thermal.

In 2008 Spain installed 2.4GW of new solar PV, by far the largest increase by any country.

Also last year Spain built the Andasol 1 solar thermal power plant, the first large plant (50MW) with heat storage to allow power generation after sundown. The next Andasol 2 plant is under construction.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:27:46 +0000

You think solar is expensive? How much do you think it will cost to protect, guard, and store nuclear waste for the next 10,000 years???? In any case solar energy has dropped dramatically in cost over the past 10 years. It is expensive long-term and a huge mistake NOT to invest in solar.

By: Nacho

Nacho — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:01:37 +0000

With the actual technology it is almost impossible achieving 100% renewable. To get it you need to combine lot of different kind of energies and it is so expensive. We need time and money to keep investing and creating new technologies, in order to achieve 100& renewable, but today it is almost impossible.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:28:02 +0000

That all sounds very nice but what’s stopping them from going 100% renewable? They just pumped 4 billion into the failing auto-industry and will pump billions more into the recession hit sectors, how about investing in renewables to achieve 100% by 2012?