What do you think of Spain using wind power as their main source of energy?

I think it's great and that they have a long way to go to catch up to Denmark, which generated 33.2% of its electricity from wind energy in 2013, and 54.8% in December 2013. http://energinet.dk/EN/El/Nyheder/Sider/2013-var-et-rekordaar-for-dansk-vindkraft.aspx On one hour in December 2013, Denmark generated 135.8% of its demand from wind energy, selling the rest to neighbouring jurisdictions at a profit. http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/blog/post/2013/12/postcard-from-the-future-122-wind-power-in-denmark Way to go Spain! Keep up the good work.

Not only does the rain in Spain fall mainly on the plain,  but the wind also blows hard and regularly in Sunny Spain.  They have a gift from nature. They should use it fully.

It would be awesome if we could use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_wind_turbine because we could benefit from higher velocity and constant wind at certain height An example could be this one: For Spain this is the wind map Some data [1] With more than 20,676 MW of wind power installed, more than 18,933 wind turbines are operating in Spain, grouped among 889 wind farms. The average size of an installed wind farm in 2010 was 26 MW. Wind energy is present in 15 of the 17 autonomous communities. Castilla–Leon has the most installed power among them, with 4,803.82 MW. This autonomous community has had the biggest growth with 917.02 MW added in 2010, and it has a wind farm capacity forecast of 6,898 MW including the wind farms already under construction once the administrative permit goes into operation. Catalonia experienced 62.32% growth, the second biggest, with 326.87 MW installed in 2010. It has 851.41 MW of total capacity installed. The third biggest growth has been in Murcia with 24.69% (37.60 MW) reaching 189.91 MW. With only 6 MW of new capacity installed in 2010 in Castilla-La Mancha region, it stays in second place with total capacity of 3,709.19 MW. Castilla-La Mancha is followed by Galicia, which added 54.8 MW for a total of 3,298.33 MW and Andalucía which added 139.41 MW for a total capacity of 2,979.33 MW. Only two autonomous regions, Extremadura and Madrid, have not yet installed any wind power capacity. Spain has increased its distribution throughout the country. Use of wind power has lowered CO2 emissions by about 23 million tons just during 2010. Furthermore, wind turbines generation has saved up to 8.5 million tons of conventional fuels and has supplied the electrical consumption of more than 13.5 million households. Some facts about wind [2] Wind power is a measure of the energy available in the wind. It is a function of the cube (third power) of the wind speed. If the wind speed is doubled, power in the wind increases by a factor of eight . This relationship means that small differences in wind speed lead to large differences in power. For example, assume that one person takes a speed measurement of 10 mph and another person, at the same time but at a neighboring site, gets a reading of 12.6 mph. For this difference of 2.6 mph, there is a 100% difference in the available wind power (103 = 1000 vs. 12.63 = 2000)! This example points out that minor differences in wind speed due either to site selection or measurement errors can have a major bearing on a decision to invest in a wind turbine. For this reason, a thorough and accurate wind study is imperative before buying a wind turbine. The amount of power available in the wind is determined by the equation w = 1/2 r A v3 where w is power, r is air density, A is the rotor area, and v is the wind speed. This equation states that the power is equal to one-half, times the air density, times the rotor area, times the cube of the wind speed. Air density varies according to elevation, temperature and weather fronts. For the purposes of calculating wind power, the variations in weather fronts are too small to significantly affect electric power output, so the formula for air density is: p = (1.325 x P) / T where T is the temperature in Fahrenheit + 459.69 and P is the pressure in inches of Mercury adjusted for elevation. So I think http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_wind_power is the best solution Ok Spain is good....But we can do better than this Sources: [1] http://www.evwind.es/2011/10/17/wind-energy-costs-in-spain/14179 [2] http://www.iowaenergycenter.org/wind-energy-manual/wind-and-wind-power/wind-speed-and-power/