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Jun 30, 2022 15:45 CESTFebruary 12 (Renewables Now) - Renewables accounted for 73.6% of Guatemala’s power mix in the sixth week (February 3-9) of 2019, according to the country’s state power regulator Comision Nacional de Energia Electrica (CNEE).
There was an increase in biomass power generation, which produced 41.3% of Guatemala's electricity during the week.
Details on the renewables share in the Guatemalan power mix are presented in the table below with data by the CNEE.
POWER SOURCE | Week 5 2019 | Week 6 2019 |
Biomass | 36.94% | 41.3% |
Hydro | 27.22% | 26% |
Wind | 3.13% | 2.2% |
Solar | 1.74% | 2% |
Geothermal | 1.89% | 1.7% |
In the first weeks of 2018, the share of renewables dropped below 70% just once. That happened in the second week of the year, when renewables were responsible for 69.95% of the total output.
During the final week of 2018, the renewables share peaked at 80.22%, according to the CNEE.
A report by the Guatemalan energy ministry states that 61.74% of generated electricity came from the renewable sources in the whole of 2018, down from 69.89% a year earlier.
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