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Portugal Runs on 100% Renewables Dropping Consumer Electric Bills to Nearly Zero for 6 Days in a Row::In total, there were 149 hours of total renewables generation, 95 of which saw the Portuguese grid exporting to Spain

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[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 50 points 11 months ago (19 children)

I'm pretty sure I still pay all the renewable energy I consume at home. I wish the bill was zero, that would be amazing.

[–] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 42 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I'm going to go ahead and assume that the article means it comes at zero cost to Portugal, as a country, thus not having to import it. It would be fairly misleading though.

[–] Taringano@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

It still Should cost.

Renewable is far from free

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