{"id":33333,"date":"2017-01-10T09:24:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T17:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/scotland-smashed-two-wind-power-records-in-december"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:53:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:53:11","slug":"scotland-smashed-two-wind-power-records-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/scotland-smashed-two-wind-power-records-in-december","title":{"rendered":"Scotland smashed two wind power records in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scotland-smashed-two-wind-power-records-in-december.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wind turbines in Scotland generated power equivalent to all its electricity needs for four straight days, between December 23 and 26, new analysis from WWF Scotland has shown.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, on December 24, 74,042 megawatt hours of electricity generated from wind power was sent to the National Grid, a record.<\/p>\n<p>With electricity demand on Christmas Eve 56,089 megawatt hours, WWF Scotland noted that wind turbines generated the \u201cequivalent of 132 percent of Scotland\u2019s total electricity needs that day.\u201d The environmental group\u2019s figures come from analysis of data provided by WeatherEnergy.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/01\/09\/scotland-smashed-two-wind-power-records-in-december.html?_source=FacebookINT&__source=facebook\">http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/01\/09\/scotland-smashed-two-wind-pow...e=facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wind turbines in Scotland generated power equivalent to all its electricity needs for four straight days, between December 23 and 26, new analysis from WWF Scotland has shown. Furthermore, on December 24, 74,042 megawatt hours of electricity generated from wind power was sent to the National Grid, a record. With electricity demand on Christmas Eve [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65399,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33333\/revisions\/65399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}