{"id":73594,"date":"2017-10-31T10:42:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T17:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/wind-powered-a-record-of-nearly-200-million-european-households-on-saturday"},"modified":"2017-10-31T10:42:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T17:42:27","slug":"wind-powered-a-record-of-nearly-200-million-european-households-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/wind-powered-a-record-of-nearly-200-million-european-households-on-saturday","title":{"rendered":"Wind powered a record of nearly 200 million European households on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wind-powered-a-record-of-nearly-200-million-european-households-on-saturday.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, a record 24.6% of total electricity came from wind power sources in the 28 countries of the European Union. The majority of this wind electricity was generated offshore (91.3%) vs onshore (8.7%).<\/p>\n<p>With Europe moving into the high wind production winter period, we expect a new season of records being broken. And with massive scale construction continuing for offshore wind farms, these records of 2017 will soon look quaint.<\/p>\n<p>The amounts of electricity generated were enough to power 197 million European households or 68% of all industrial electricity needs. Europe has about 500 million total people, with a land mass very close to that of the USA.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2017\/10\/31\/wind-powered-a-record-of-nearly-200-million-european-households-on-saturday\/\">https:\/\/electrek.co\/2017\/10\/31\/wind-powered-a-record-of-near...-saturday\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, a record 24.6% of total electricity came from wind power sources in the 28 countries of the European Union. The majority of this wind electricity was generated offshore (91.3%) vs onshore (8.7%). With Europe moving into the high wind production winter period, we expect a new season of records being broken. And with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73594","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=73594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}