They say the rain in Spain stays mostly in the plain. But
apparently the wind in Spain blows everywhere. This February, a
record 21.7 percent of Spain’s electricity came from wind power.
The 4,890 gigawatt-hours of electricity generated from wind made
it the country’s third-largest source of energy in the month,
after coal and nuclear power plants, according to Red Eléctrica
de España (REE). Although Spain has poured signficant money, in
the form of feed-in tariffs, into solar power development,
Europe has been experiencing a severely cold winter, where wind
power can thrive. By using its wind turbines instead of fossil
fuels to supply electricity, Spanish electricity prices fell to
€51/MWh during the first two weeks of February while in
neighboring France electricity cost €105/MWh. During that time,
wind provided a whopping 28.9 percent of Spain’s electricity.
Success with wind power has been recorded in the United States
as well. Installed capacity has risen steadily and according to
the Energy Information