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Friday, 26.04.2024, 07:40
Record amount of power generated from renewable resources in Lithuania in 2016
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According to preliminary data, Lithuanian consumers used
10.445 TWh of electricity last year, while renewable energy resources covered
about a fifth (18.9%) of the need nationwide.
Last year, wind mills generated a total of 1.094 TWh energy,
which accounts for 10.4% of the electricity consumed in Lithuania. In 2015,
wind mills contributed 806 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity.
"Last year, three new wind mill parks were launched,
featuring the latest technological solutions that considerably improved the
work productivity, which allowed generating bigger amounts of energy than
earlier generations of wind mill parks," Aistis Radavicius, the head of the association.
In 2016, hydropower plants generated 449 GWh of electricity,
while solar power plants contributed 66 GWh.
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