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Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

Recently countries with great renewable energy resources have made impressive achievements in clean energy generation [treehugger.com]. Last year, Costa Rica met 99 percent of its energy demand [treehugger.com] with a mix of renewable energy and Scotland's wind turbines generated the equivalent electricity of 97% of its households' energy needs [treehugger.com], though what was consumed was still a mix of renewables and fossil fuels.

Now, Denmark says it has hit a world record [theguardian.com] for the amount of wind energy consumed in a year with 42.1 percent of the country's energy needs being met by wind power according to the state-owned energy company Energinet.

The Scandinavian country says that although more wind energy was added to the grid last year, the major gain was because of a windier year than usual that kept the turbines spinning and cranking out electricity year round. Denmark was already getting a significant chunk of electricity from wind power with 2014 seeing 39.1 percent of their energy needs being met by wind.

These rising numbers are getting the country closer to its goal of having 50 percent of its energy demand satisfied by wind power by 2020.

Too bad there's no wind in the United States, or they could do something like this too.

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