Right now, the entire country of Denmark is using 4.245MW of electricity.
Windmills are producing: 3.442 MW
Solar is producing: 746 MW
So if we do the math, wind + solar = 98.7% of our energy use right now is 100% renewable
Just a reminder that not only can we fix climate change, we are fixing it.
@baekdal You are confusing megawatts (MW) and gigawatts (GW), a factor of a thousand. A small town has a consumption around 4 megawatts.
The consumption of Denmark is 32,000 GWh per year or an average steady consumption of around 3.6 GW, a thousand times higher than the figure you state.
Denmark's state energy agency publishes all the figures.
@baekdal I should add that one large modern wind generator produces around 4 megawatts of power. ;-)
@shuttersparks The numbers are from the official Danish grid: https://en.energinet.dk/energisystem_fullscreen/
@baekdal Yes, I looked just now, Apr 24 0141 UTC, and Denmark's electricity consumption at that moment is 2,890 MW or 2.89 GW. That's in line with what I said before.
Of that, power plants are providing about 800 MW and wind turbines 1,615 MW or 1.6 GW.
This is very good, of course. Denmark is a model country for adopting renewable energy sources. Denmark's consumption at the moment is roughly equivalent to the City of Los Angeles, CA right now.
2.89 GW and 6 million people is around 480 watts per person. U.S. consumption at this moment is 408 GW with 320 million people, is about 1275 watts per person. Some of that is because of heavy industry and some because it's dinner hour in the Western U.S. when consumption spikes up, where in Denmark it's the middle of the night, generally the lowest consumption rate of the day.
You can watch the U.S. grid -- consumption and power sources here: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electric_overview/US48/US48
The exciting thing here is that, over the years, I've watched wind power creeping up and up. It now regularly exceeds the combined output of our nuclear plants, which is around 75 to 80 GW and frequently exceeds coal if the wind conditions are good.
