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@bradr Great news, but this is _only_ aboute electricity production. Is there a graph with _all_ energy and fossil use? I.e. including motor traffic (which still runs on oil), heavy industries and chemical processes?

@bradr #Hopescrolling ?

@bradr
Where is the other (100 - 44 - 17) = 39 % ?

@bradr Just today read the term "hype swiping" and I like both the term and your news :-)

@bradr It's #bloomscrolling And a nice chart you have there, too.

@bradr
dukenukem scrolling

@bradr and that is why the EU wants to destroy this process

https://www.eldiario.es/economia/ue-prohibe-proyectos-energias-renovables-fondos-europeos-lleven-piezas-china_1_13192706.html

@KimeraGupta @bradr That makes zero sense: When you can no longer buy solar panels you keep producing electricity with the current ones, for many years; while the moment you can't buy fossil fuels you stop generating energy because they're single use. You burn it and it's gone. And as the skyrocketing fuel prices have shown us, that's a critical dependency.

@bradr I think this does not count as bloomscrolling, because there is no flowers...

But maybe it does?

@bradr
Whilst I 100% agree that this is very positive, and great to see, electricity is not the only energy consumed in spain. There is still a considerable reliance on fossil fuels for energy.
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/profile/energy/spain

I would say the opposite of doom scrolling is reading a lighthearted novel.

@bradr Here is a year in South Australia. Green for solar+wind, black for gas and diesel, purple for battery charge/discharge*.

Such is the height of the daytime solar generation across Australia, mostly from residential solar, that there will be three hours of free electricity from June.

The South Australia state Premier says all electricity in the state will be zero carbon by 2027.

Edit: a caution about interpreting these figures. This is electricity usage as *seen by the grid*. There is a huge amount of daytime power consumption which is powered from on-site solar panels, and so not seen by the grid at all. No one knows how big this 'behind the meter' usage is, but based on panels sold it is expected to be huge, as part of the rationale for a household installing solar is to run the summer air-conditioning for 'free'. There are pleasant spring days (no heating or aircon) where the entirety of the state is powered from residential solar alone.

* Battery charging is solar+wind in SA, so count that as non-fossil.

@bradr The 40% missing from the chart is nuclear energy?

@fusion @bradr the mix in 2025 was:

21.85% solar
21.56% gas
20.41% wind
18.78% nuclear
11.37% hydropower
3.48% oil
2.23% bioenergy
0.32% coal

So renewables accounted for 53.63%, zero emissions (solar + wind + hydro + nuclear) 72.41%. Really good.

(Source: https://ourworldindata.org/search?q=energy+generation&countries=Spain&resultType=all )

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Mood trolling. Spain lifts all spirits lately.

@bradr wenn wir diese Entwicklung auf Deutschland übertragen könnten.... dann wären wir in 15 Jahren fossilfrei.
Aber das können wir nicht. Denn unsere Politik wurde von den fossilen Industrien gekauft.

@bradr
Spain's geographic location was helpful though, impossible to pull that stunt in central mainland Europe. UK is a different case, they can tap more wind and tidal.

@gekko3k @bradr Helpful? Definitively. But not impossible to pull it of in other European countries. A bit harder and more expensive? Sure, but political is the main blocker

@gekko3k @bradr You get solar power as long as there is daylight. Better if there's no clouds sure. But also better to be further from the equator so more of the light is perpendicular to the surface of the solar panel.

@bradr marathon scrolling?

@bradr hope scrolling? =0

@bradr

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/17/spain-energy-resilience-iran-war-trump-trade.html

Spain has sufficient autonomy, agency, & sovereignty to chart its own course because of its energy policy

It lets Spain to tell Trump to eff off, and especially his fossil fuel oil oligarchs.

If only we were all so fortunate.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/08/spain-pm-sanchez-trump-iran-war-ceasefire-middle-east-crisis.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/world/europe/trump-britain-spain-falklands.html

@bradr nice! And this is also part of an ongoing overall reduction in total greenhouse gas emissions. They have been steadily using less per year since 2007. Truly impressive and hopeful.

@bradr Scoom drolling

@bradr hope stopping

@bradr I don't know but 25 years doesn't seem particularly fast to me. Spain definitely gets credit for making it happen and working on it steadily over those 25 years.