{"id":322,"date":"2018-04-23T08:34:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T08:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/?p=322"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:41:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:41:03","slug":"a-huge-breakthrough-for-renewable-energy-in-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/2018\/04\/23\/a-huge-breakthrough-for-renewable-energy-in-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"A huge breakthrough for renewable energy in Portugal&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>Renewable energy delivered more than 100% of Portugal's energy in March, producing more clean power than it could use!<\/p>\n<p>Over the month, Portugal had periods of sole reliance on renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>The country is\u00a0predicting\u00a0that renewables will satisfy its mainland electricity needs by 2040, ultimately\u00a0eliminating\u00a0the electricity sector\u2019s\u00a0greenhouse gas emissions.\u00a0Local coal power stations have made future plans to close due to fossil fuels becoming obsolete in the country.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13697,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/13697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}