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Reality check: 41.5% of electricity in Portugal in June was provided by net imports. https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy_pie/chart.htm?l=en&...

Over H1 2024 overall, indeed Portugal shows good results with 80%+ of it's power consumed being domestically produced renewables, 8.7% fossil fuels, and 11.1% imports. Because all import is from Spain, which had 60%+ renewables too, and only 12.5% fossils, it is like, 10.1% or so fossil-derived power overall, which is a good result.

What's the reality check? It sounds like your result basically agrees with the link title.
Is that 10.1% effectively agreeing with TFA that ~90% of electricity consumed in Portugal was sourced from renewables?
Yes but not in the last two months. In the last 6 months, yes.
So the reality check is actually better than the headline?
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Sunny country composed entirely of mountains and oceanic coast produces lots of renewable energy.