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South Dakota produced 110% of its electricity demand with just renewables for a year (bsky.app)

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Fascinating new EIA data

South Dakota produced 110% of its electricity demand with just Wind-Water-Solar for the full year Oct 1 '23-Sep 30 '24

77.5% Wind 30.1% Water 2.2% Solar

Also produced 16.8% gas, 11.7% coal

So SD produced 138% of demand, exporting 38%

https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/WWSBook/Countries100Pct.pdf

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[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago

Cool, except that it's South Dakota.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 22 points 1 month ago

Yeah, they have like, what, five light bulbs there?

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

On a good day.

[-] ArtikBanana@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He also posted a list of the top 10 states by electricity demand met by renewables (Which is also in the linked pdf).

There's also a list of countries by renewables percentage, but it's from 2021:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewable_electricity_production

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