<story><title>54% of Portugal’s electricity is now generated by renewable energy</title><url>https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2023-09-30/54-of-portugals-electricity-is-now-generated-by-renewable-energy/81840</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>meiraleal</author><text>Ironically, still very far from Brazil&amp;#x27;s 84%. Meanwhile the UE thinks it can lecture South America countries about how to preserve nature.</text></item><item><author>Al-Khwarizmi</author><text>&amp;quot;renewable energy sources accounting for 54% of its energy consumption in 2019. This is higher than the EU average of 18%&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;higher&amp;quot;: quite an understatement.&lt;p&gt;Go, Portugal!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klysm</author><text>Renewable energy generation and aggressive deforestation and ecological destruction are orthogonal</text></comment>
<story><title>54% of Portugal’s electricity is now generated by renewable energy</title><url>https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2023-09-30/54-of-portugals-electricity-is-now-generated-by-renewable-energy/81840</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>meiraleal</author><text>Ironically, still very far from Brazil&amp;#x27;s 84%. Meanwhile the UE thinks it can lecture South America countries about how to preserve nature.</text></item><item><author>Al-Khwarizmi</author><text>&amp;quot;renewable energy sources accounting for 54% of its energy consumption in 2019. This is higher than the EU average of 18%&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;higher&amp;quot;: quite an understatement.&lt;p&gt;Go, Portugal!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onethought</author><text>I mean having great renewables while clearfelling the rainforest is probably still net negative.</text></comment>