@UllallullooMA to Today I Learned (TIL)English • 11 months agoTIL 70% of Saudi Arabia's electrical consumption is used for air conditioningrefindustry.comexternal-linkmessage-square6arrow-up1125arrow-down10
arrow-up1125arrow-down1external-linkTIL 70% of Saudi Arabia's electrical consumption is used for air conditioningrefindustry.com@UllallullooMA to Today I Learned (TIL)English • 11 months agomessage-square6
minus-square@ramble81@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish1•11 months agoHow much of it is offset by solar? Especially there.
minus-square@UllallullooOPMAlinkEnglish6•11 months agoAbout half a percent of their electricity comes from solar: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-country?stackMode=absolute&country=~SAU 61% of their electricity comes from oil-fired power plants like Rabigh IPP-1, which both generates power and desalinates water.
How much of it is offset by solar? Especially there.
About half a percent of their electricity comes from solar: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-country?stackMode=absolute&country=~SAU
61% of their electricity comes from oil-fired power plants like Rabigh IPP-1, which both generates power and desalinates water.