This news article was originally written in Spanish. It has been automatically translated for your convenience. Reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate translation, however, no automated translation is perfect nor is it intended to replace a human translator. The original article in Spanish can be viewed at La energía eólica alcanza un 43 por ciento de cobertura de la demanda eléctrica
Wind energy reaches a 43 per cent of the electrical demand coverage
25/11/2008
November 25, 2008
The wind generation peaked at dawn on the last day of November 24, around 5 a.m., a new record of coverage of the demand to be 43 percent, with 9.253 wind megawatts in operation at that time, meet a demand of 21.264 megawatts. The previous record of electric demand coverage took place on March 22 in supposing, at six in the afternoon, 40.8 per cent, with 9.862 megawatts in operation.
In addition to this record of a timely moment, Wind Business Association points out that wind energy will be covered at the end of this year 2008 almost 11 per cent of the electricity demand. This significant contribution, it should be added that the presence of wind power in the market lowers the price 6 euro the megawatt at the time, which in 2007 led to a reduction of 1,198 million euros compared to 991 million of premiums received.
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