{"id":73071,"date":"2017-10-06T15:42:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T22:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/scotlands-wind-turbines-are-becoming-increasingly-efficient-at-meeting-the-nations-power-needs"},"modified":"2017-10-06T15:42:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T22:42:29","slug":"scotlands-wind-turbines-are-becoming-increasingly-efficient-at-meeting-the-nations-power-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/scotlands-wind-turbines-are-becoming-increasingly-efficient-at-meeting-the-nations-power-needs","title":{"rendered":"Scotland\u2019s wind turbines are becoming increasingly efficient at meeting the nation\u2019s power needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scotlands-wind-turbines-are-becoming-increasingly-efficient-at-meeting-the-nations-power-needs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wind turbines produced double the amount of power required to meet Scotland\u2019s electricity needs Monday, according to researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Environmental group WWF Scotland said Friday that analysis of data provided by WeatherEnergy showed the country\u2019s wind turbines sent 86,467 megawatt hours of electricity to the National Grid on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>That day, total electricity consumption in Scotland \u2013 including homes, industry and businesses \u2013 was 41,866 megawatt hours, WWF Scotland said, meaning that wind power produced the equivalent of 206 percent of the nation\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/10\/06\/scotlands-wind-turbines-are-becoming-increasingly-efficient.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/10\/06\/scotlands-wind-turbines-are-...cient.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wind turbines produced double the amount of power required to meet Scotland\u2019s electricity needs Monday, according to researchers. Environmental group WWF Scotland said Friday that analysis of data provided by WeatherEnergy showed the country\u2019s wind turbines sent 86,467 megawatt hours of electricity to the National Grid on Monday. That day, total electricity consumption in Scotland [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73071","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=73071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}