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from the a-view-of-the-future dept.

Germany has met its total electricity needs via renewables several times (most recently needing to pay folks to use the energy being generated)--but that has been strictly on weekends.

Common Dreams reports [commondreams.org]

In what is being hailed as a major achievement, Portugal just generated [zero.ong] [Portuguese][1] [archive.is] all of its electricity from renewable sources for more than four days in a row.

According to an analysis of national figures by the Sustainable Land System Association in collaboration with the Portuguese Renewable Energy Association (APREN), from the morning of [Saturday] May 7 until the early evening on [Wednesday] May 11--a total of 107 consecutive hours--"Electricity consumption in the country was fully covered by solar, wind, and hydro power."

[1] Translated by Google with scripts run by archive.is.

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