Talk:Wind power in Spain

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[edit] Percentages

this site is up to date to at least 2003 with it's graphs, and Spain clearly got over 50% of it's energy from conventional thermal plants then. It's kind of hard to believe it's changed that much in 3 years. Or is the data presented on this page for a windy day? No wait, that would make the article contradict itself. -Theanphibian (talk • contribs) 08:44, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

These are the numbers I get for the projected 2006 data:

  • Thermal: 60.37%
  • Hydro: 8.95%
  • Nuclear: 20.17%
  • All Others: 10.51%

From the EIA here. The numbers provided in the article link to a zip file that is 7 MB. I downloaded and didn't even find anything useful among pages and pages of Excel worksheets. -Theanphibian (talk • contribs) 08:56, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Variability management

Because Spain has such a large percentage of wind power, we would like to learn how they deal with the variability, which is considered to be a major impediment to global implementation, integration into grid systems. And we would also like to learn how the issue may be addressed if their usage of wind power increases in the future. -69.87.203.158 14:30, 5 November 2007 (UTC)