Spain’s Energy Shift: How It Became a Global Leader in Green Energy | SLICE EARTH

[@alexandrejuve1305]

This video is outdated, right now 60% of electricity is renewable and 25% nuclear it means that only 15% is fosil and growing, we have many pumping hydro next step are batteries and I thing that 95% could be clean by 2030, it depends on politics.

[@beyondfossil]

Yes, grid-scale storage for dispatchable "firm renewables" will obsolete almost every other form of energy. BTW, Spain has wisely decided to phase out its nuclear power by 2035. Renewables continue to dominate with historically low cost of energy production and still driving their prices downwards. Renewables will be ever cheaper and more widespread by 2035 too. Keep going Spain! 👍

[@amizuki]

The grid is a small proportion of total primary energy. Transportation, heating, industrial thermal, etc is typically a much larger share in any country than the electrical grid

[@beyondfossil]

​@@amizuki Yes, the world uses about 620-exajoules of energy annually and approximately 100-exajoules of it is electricity. But because fossil fuels are so inefficient, about 300-exajoules is wasted energy! This is called "rejected energy" in the Sankey Diagrams. Rejected energy is useless energy (low temperature heat) that goes back into the environment. That is a huge amount of waste that electrification greatly avoids. For example, fossil fuel vehicles using internal combustion engines are incredibly *inefficient* at some 20% efficiency where a massive 80% is lost as heat. Whereas EVs with some 85% efficiency so already ahead by a large margin. Same in the household with electrified kitchens using induction cooktops at 90% efficiency versus natural gas stovetops at 40% efficiency. Advantages also from electric immersion water heaters at well over 96% efficiency versus natural gas water heaters at 60% efficiency. Then there's heat pumps that can actually be multiples of efficiency over 100% of heating/cooling compared to the heat pump's input energy. Combine heat-pumps with home-based geothermal storage and heat pump efficiency will go through the roof! The first milestone will be 2035 for a net-zero grid in US/Canada/EU. The US 4200TWh annual grid is already somewhere around 40% to 50% non-fossil powered. Canada's 630TWh grid is already about 81% non-fossil fuel powered. The milestone after 2035 is the 2050 to 2060 timeframe. That's when major economies like US, Canada, EU, China have targeted for overall net-zero emissions and most of it will be achieved through renewables which is the only power source that can easily provide that amount of power (and more) cleanly at the lowest price. Moreover, a lot of industrial energy is high intensity heat for important industries like cement and steel. So I look forward to large-scale ceramic heat storage using ceramic blocks that occupy the space of a small warehouse or larger. The ceramic blocks are heated up using resistive electrical heaters powered by renewables. This heat can be directly used in industry and also can be converted back to electricity using steam turbines providing dispatchable renewable energy. Ceramic blocks are dirt cheap. Also exploring, drilling, transporting, refining of petroleum is incredibly energy intensive. The US alone uses some 1.1-exajoules of energy just to refine its petroleum -- this is equivalent to about 278TWh of electricity. Compare that to all 3-million EVs in the US only uses some 12.15TWh of electricity! That's using average annual driver miles of 13,500miles at 0.3kWh/mile average EV efficiency.

[@beyondfossil]

@@amizuki Yes, the world uses about 620-exajoules of energy annually and approximately 100-exajoules of it is electricity. But because fossil fuels are so inefficient, about 300-exajoules is wasted energy! This is called "rejected energy" in the Sankey Diagrams. Rejected energy is useless energy (low temperature heat) that goes back into the environment. That is a huge amount of waste that electrification greatly avoids. For example, fossil fuel vehicles using internal combustion engines are incredibly *inefficient* at some 20-percent efficiency where a massive 80-percent is lost as heat. Whereas EVs with some 85-percent efficiency so already ahead by a large margin. Same in the household with electrified kitchens using induction cooktops at 90-percent efficiency versus natural gas stovetops at 40-percent efficiency. Advantages also from electric immersion water heaters at well over 96-percent efficiency versus natural gas water heaters at 60-percent efficiency. Then there's heat pumps that can actually be multiples of efficiency over 100-percent of heating/cooling compared to the heat pump's input energy. Combine heat-pumps with home-based geothermal storage and heat pump efficiency will go through the roof!

[@beyondfossil]

@@amizuki ...furthermore.. The first milestone will be 2035 for a net-zero grid in US/Canada/EU. The US 4200TWh annual grid is already somewhere around 40-percent to 50-percent non-fossil powered. Canada's 630TWh grid is already about 81-percent non-fossil fuel powered. The milestone after 2035 is the 2050 to 2060 timeframe. That's when major economies like US, Canada, EU, China have targeted for overall net-zero emissions and most of it will be achieved through renewables which is the only power source that can easily provide that amount of power (and more) cleanly at the lowest price. Moreover, a lot of industrial energy is high intensity heat for important industries like cement and steel. So I look forward to large-scale ceramic heat storage using ceramic blocks that occupy the space of a small warehouse or larger. The ceramic blocks are heated up using resistive electrical heaters powered by renewables. This heat can be directly used in industry and also can be converted back to electricity using steam turbines providing dispatchable renewable energy. Ceramic blocks are dirt cheap. Also exploring, drilling, transporting, refining of petroleum is incredibly energy intensive. The US alone uses some 1.1-exajoules of energy just to refine its petroleum -- this is equivalent to about 278TWh of electricity. Compare that to all 3-million EVs in the US only uses some 12.15TWh of electricity! That's using average annual driver miles of 13,500miles at 0.3kWh/mile average EV efficiency.

[@rasputinmoore]

this is from 15 years agooo!

[@bloodynorahvan2203]

Good to see the progress from our Spanish friends

[@alvarodeelias1727]

This measures only brings energetic poverty and lack of competence for the industries. Many people is dying because of the huge increase of the energy cost, jobs are cut down, but yes, you woke mind will see as progress.... the planet won't feel it anyway but people is dying already daily.

[@e.o.9094]

This video is soooo outdated. The solar tax imposed by Mariano Rajoy government was ruled out in 2018 when Pedro Sánchez took over as PM.

[@xevicxavier9802]

Well done Spain, may this increase rapidly across Europe.

[@alvarodeelias1727]

really?? This measures only brings energetic poverty and lack of competence for the industries. Many people is dying because of the huge increase of the energy cost, jobs are cut down, but yes, you woke mind will see as progress....

[@MultiMenvafan]

Viva España! Visionary transition is an inspiration to the rest of EU and the world

[@nicolasjesus1735]

Spain has 7 nuclear reactors, not 8

[@udavster]

"Comes from a dangerous source" smh, misinformation on march

[@MultiMenvafan]

Are you saying plotunium is safe to eat? Nuclear fission is legacy, last century tech.

[@stijn2644]

@@MultiMenvafan How did you go from misinformation to eating plutonium? Every energy source is last century or even older solar PV: 1886 wind (electrical): 1883 hydro: 1882 geothermal: 1913 Nuclear: 1954

[@elmagotorrenti]

The woman has no idea, most of the energy comes from nuclear? Why do you let people who doesn't know anything participate in this video?

[@WILLWKF]

Nuclear energy is not dangerous, is even cleaner than the solar energy, more efficient and more trustful.

[@nicolasjesus1735]

you are right

[@ryuuguu01]

You forgot to mention that it is more expensive and has a longer lead time to develop and that it is even more costly if it does not run 24/7. This means it needs energy storage if the grid does not have things like gas peaker plants to fill in the gaps. This is why Japan had to build 1 GW of pumped hydro generation for each 2GW of nuclear generation since they did not have access to gas. Building new nuclear is a waste of resources, but keeping already built nuclear running until other CO2-free production is available is a good idea.

[@MultiMenvafan]

Nope. More expensive and if you think radioactive fuel is cleaner than solar panels you need to go back to school.

[@joelimbergamo639]

​@@MultiMenvafanyes, solar is better in every way, except at night. The ideal energy mix is a base of nuclear to cover the constant demand of arround 20% nuclear, followed by 50-60% renewables and some peak plants ideally gas. This uses the best energy for each time. No single source of energy will cover all the demand

[@valentindumitru9492]

@@ryuuguu01 Even if it is more expensive (probably isnt) thats only because the investment for the past decades has only been intro renowables instead of nuclear, and also, nuclear has A LOT of regulations, which is much more expensive in time of construction, research and development.

[@locualoein8543]

Some one has told it. It is a bit obsolete. We have wind farms with more than 300 wind turbines and modern ones are 6,5MW and can reach 7MW each (Vestas enventus and the most modern Gamesa Genearal etc will be 7MW). In only my area there are more than 3000 wind turbines moderns and old ones. And we haven´t stop installing wind turbines.

[@kampung2010]

The Girasol technology was created by French engineer Felix Trombe in the 1970s. He built a power plant in Odeillo, North Catalunya. The French government shut it down to promote nuclear power... Such madness!!!!!

[@mousamoradi3038]

I am proud of you Spain! Except for the "solar tax" part which was a really stupid decision and thankfully it is removed now.

[@SLICE_Earth]

You're absolutely right! This video was made back in 2019, and things have continued to evolve ever since!

[@douglasnisbet1189]

Almost 200 hectares of land just to power 25000 houses doesn’t seem very efficient

[@heldertorres4296]

It's land where you can't built or having agriculture , it's basically rock land most

[@douglasnisbet1189]

@@heldertorres4296 fair enough, but it still seems like very few houses for such a large area

[@heldertorres4296]

@@douglasnisbet1189 better then nothing , and this video it's quite old in our days technology and laws have change , and it's much better than before at the time 2018

[@luffirton]

@@douglasnisbet1189yes it’s definitely not effective compared to nuclear or geothermal when you think of the amount of energy production you get out of the used area, but like someone said here. It’s early technology and have most likely been improved further. Business doesn’t wait for the most efficient technology to come around they need to start operations as quickly as possible and can upgrade and develop it further afterwards. That’s just how companies in this business must work to not go bankrupt during development of new technologies and projects.

[@LUN4RA]

its usually in the inner parts of Spain where nobody lives, as everybody lives in the coast and Madrid, its basically useless land that can now be used for electricity production

[@monosodiumg6389]

Woohoo more cheap renewables. Now explain to me why in march I got a letter from Iberdrola announcing increases of around 50% for off-peak rates and what the govt is running an emergency relief program for electricity for the poor.

[@flyingfeline7110]

Have you seen the price of electricity in Spain ?? Possibly the most expensive in Europe. To get the cheapest rate you have to use the washing machine and dishwasher at 03:00am

[@mistermood4164]

Nah Germany and Netherlands more expensive

[@sergiogarpla2902]

Have you seen any recent information, because you are quite wrong. As per the European commision analysis, in 2023, Spain Kwh was 4-5 € cheaper than EUs average, being just 60% the price of other countries like Germany. And if you have overproduction of electricity in the case you've got solar panels you can even be compensated for it. Newer technologies aren't usually as rentable as more stablished ones, there is a time period in which you need to invest in new technology to make it more reliable than the previous model.

[@lokesh303101]

WindFarms are much Better. The Solar Farms do come with WindFarms for 24×7 Productive Output.

[@gc4434]

Who is paying for it Spain or the EU? 🤔

[@anthonyhalkyer2036]

I’m really curious on how the Spanish homeowner financed her solar system. I know that the American residential solar financing is so different and I’m curious to know what the market penetration rate is and what are the financing costs.

[@ayoCC]

they said "cooperative" so I'm going to make some assumptions. I'm living in a housing cooperative, to become a member, you must buy shares, like around 3000 euro, and then you pay a "usage fee" 800 euro, basically like paying rent. And then you also get dividends every year, that's around 90 euro. I'm assuming that it's somewhat the same, you pay maybe 300 euro to buy shares, you pay 70 euro a month for usage fee, and every year you either get a dividend of like 7 euro or you increase your shares in the cooperative. Every couple years shareholders can vote for representatives that take care of the organisation.

[@heldertorres4296]

​@@ayoCCit ca go down to 20€ a month it depends where your living in Spain how many panels etc etc

[@patriciomorenomonter]

I can tell you my experience. I installed myself 2Kw for around 1400€ out of my pocket. It has been paid in around 6 years and nowadays I use an electric motorbike for absolutely free. It sounds crazy even to me.

[@FERDI-f6n]

Do you think they are poor as Africans and cannot afford. Get informe, dude.

[@davidwilkie9551]

Some real democratic voting with their feet. Good.

[@marioustxexcel6375]

Gas from Algeria is Spanish engine

[@RaulGonzalez-hi8wh]

Now they habe to do laundry at 2am because daylight electricity is expensive as fxck

[@pargevkarapetyan2251]

👌👍👍👍

[@babakgholian3467]

Some energy companies are thieves , they charge too much .

[@0ctatr0n]

Why would they need to bring about a tax on sunshine? You have neighbouring countries you can export electricity too, just do that instead??

[@Rodrigomezcua]

There’s a common theme in politicians joining energy, telecom and banking companies after their terms as “advisors” for life, which leads to creating laws that are more helpful to those companies than the regular citizen…

[@0ctatr0n]

@@Rodrigomezcua So exactly like Australian politicians than? 😕

[@exosoma]

That tax rules no longer, since 2018. Nowadays, Spain is investing heavily in hydrogen to store excess energy that the market doesn't currently need, so it can be used or sold in the future. The BarMar pipeline (Barcelona-Marseille) is planned to be finished by 2030 and will serve as the gateway to sell excess energy from Spain's highly developed renewable energy industry to Europe.

[@shanewilson2484]

How much are Spanish paying per kWhr compared to the French?

[@AlFreeman-xy4jy]

'Green and ecological energy', after devastating natural environments and land with wind turbines and solar power plants.

[@MultiMenvafan]

Pff you don't realise that PV panels can even improve the climate in arid environments and even improve agriculture yield as it prevents evaporation and lowers temperatures

[@Chris-cc8vc]

they devasted natural environments many years ago. Many empty areas in Spain are used as farmland or they are degraded. Yes of course, they destroy natural zones as well, but more in order to build new houses or holiday resorts.

[@AlFreeman-xy4jy]

@MultiMenvafan En Italia han experimentado con el cultivo de hortalizas bajo paneles solares, con muy malos resultados. Las plantas necesitan el sol para desarrollarse, no la sombra, pero si te gustan las verduras insípidas pues vale.

[@MultiMenvafan]

@@AlFreeman-xy4jy the results were not at all poor. Sunny Italy and their petropopulist govt made a huge mistake to prefer foreign fossil fuels to homegrown domestic energy. The farmers are complaining that govt regulation destroyed an alternative income stream on low productivity farmland.

[@AlFreeman-xy4jy]

@MultiMenvafan Listen, in Sardinia they have approved wind projects with 200-300 metre towers that, if they are all built, will give power to 25 million people, but the island only has a million and a half inhabitants and is also self-sufficient. They are devastating nature to make room for those useless towers, and the photovoltaics on the roofs of the greenhouses are no good. Tomatoes don't ripen because they need sun, not electricity, whoever installed them took them off to put them in the ground next door, but in the summer sun they turn into an oven and the crops suffer. I prefer modular LMR reactors than those 300 metre high towers, or hydrogen and ammonia power stations, which will be the future.

[@MrVitorao]

Brazil is lightyears ahead of Spain on energy transition, 55% of its energy matrix is renewable

[@luffirton]

If it’s going to be a competition Norway is lightyears ahead of Brazil with 95% of its energy mix from renewable energy sources.

[@MrVitorao]

@@luffirton You probably talking about power matrix, in that regard, Brazil is also 90% renewable. But the thing is that Brazil is one of the largest economies in the world, it has a much greater impact on climate change than Norway

[@LUN4RA]

this video is outdated as it is from around 2017-2019 (as the solar tax was removed in 2018), our renewables now account for around 65% of energy production

[@Just_another_Euro_dude]

Brazil? A country of 220 million people with economy smaller than France with 67 million people. Brazil with a GDP per capita and GDP PPP per capita much lower than Bulgaria. Some Brazilians have the tendency to post cocky comments. Trust me friend, in this world you are nothing compared to Europe or USA or Japan.

[@MrVitorao]

@@Just_another_Euro_dude it's still among the 10th biggest economies and 7th population wise. I am talking about energy transition and in that regard, for a developing country, Brazil is much ahead. The CO2 emissions per capita is lower than India's even thogh it has a much higher gdp per capita. Brazil can set a standard for developing economies, not for developed ones!

[@assignmentuot7963]

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[@elfuturomio]

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[@milo-gd3ml]

4:55 She has no idea what's she's talking about. Nuclear power is safer ane cleaner then solar.

[@edgarmarroquin4034]

She's from Catalunya they are not normal

[@DCCXXV]

Tf you mean safer there is no single scenario in which a solar panel can kill a human once it is installed. I can image a few (although much rare than before) where nuclear is not safe, especially in times of war.

[@exosoma]

That's an opinion, not a fact. For instance, mining suppliers are at risk of being affected by conflicts, such as those in African countries, so I don’t think "safe" is the best adjective to describe all those suppliers. Additionally, you have to consider the large amount of water that a nuclear power plant requires, which could be a major problem in a country like Spain, where desertification is increasing.

[@heldertorres4296]

@@milo-gd3ml what ?

[@factnotfiction5915]

@@DCCXXV > there is no single scenario in which a solar panel can kill a human once it is installed When solar panels break under weather (hail, tornadoes, hurricanes, etc) * the debris can become quite hazardous when picked up by the wind * the heavy metals can now escape and contaminate the food chain

[@666WolfWere]

Ok... But every year the people are more poor. Spain is not an example of economy power house

[@FERDI-f6n]

Spanish Economy is more impressive than you think. Go kiss ass to the Anglo saxon countries

[@madgringo9263]

Really..? Are you sure of that ? TRUTH HURTS ...I know... But Spain is Tops... And you are Not...!! hahahaha 😂😅😊

[@MOliveira-m5h]

And what to do they use the energy for, making cheese and wine? The just built it for some kind of U.N. grant money or something. Do they have solar powered bicycles. You can't use european culture as an example for that. Think of the cars. American car companies don't sell the cars they sell in europe in america. They drive damn fiats or mopeds. They live in a concrete house with clay tiles. How much energy do they use to begin with?

[@Chris-cc8vc]

Seriously? In Spain they need a lot of energy for fresh water production. In the southern part there is a lot of argiculture, but not enouth water. Tourism is also a very important sector that also requires energy. In the future there might exist energy export to other countries.