By Natalia Lima / Source: Ecorazzi

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Germany has just broken its own record for the amount of energy generated by renewable sources in a day.

On July 25th, the country generated 78 percent of its total energy through wind, solar and other non-coal energy sources, topping its previous record of 74 percent.

Unusually high winds at most of the country’s wind turbines’ location contributed to the record-breaking day. As the gushing wind accelerated the turbines, the country’s utilities slowed down the coal- and gas-fired power plants.

Freakish winds aside, Germany is still leading the way in renewable energy production. A few days earlier, on a gloomy day when zero percent of the country’s power was generated through solar panels, and barely any wind motivated the turbines to turn, Germany had 25 percent of its electricity generated through renewables.

Osha Gray Davidson, author of ‘Clean Break,’ a book on Germany’s transition from coal to renewables, thinks the latest numbers make Germany an example to other industrialized countries like the U.S. “because manufacturing accounts for much more of the German economy than the American economy and they have 80 million people—much larger than a country like Denmark, which gets more of its power from renewables but has a much smaller industrial base and has a population of five and a half million people.”

Currently, the U.S. only gets 10 percent of its energy from renewables.

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