True.

Is it possible that there is some confusion introduced, in this blog post, between Spain’s electricity requirements and total energy requirements?

The end of the first sentence, “Spain set a new record, hitting 53.7% of its energy requirements being supplied by wind energy,” refers to total energy requirements, but the second sentence, which refers to “the amount of electricity being supplied by wind,” refers only to electrical energy.

Even if at the relatively short-lived, peak moment or period cited, 53.7% of Spain’s *electricity* requirements were supplied by wind energy, that is still an impressive total, but that’s a manifestly different assertion than stating that wind supplied 53.7% of Spain’s *energy* requirements.

At least in the USA – I’m not sure how applicable this may be to Spain – electricity consumption is an important but minority fraction of total energy consumption; one handy overview can be found at:

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories
“Energy Goes With the Flow”
Science & Technology Review, September 2009
https://str.llnl.gov/Sep09/simon.html

What percent of energy over the past YEAR was generated by wind? – that is more relevant and important. Looking at what happened at 5:30am one morning is meaningless.