Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comM to Today I Learned (TIL)@civilloquy.comEnglish · 1 year agoTIL 70% of Saudi Arabia's electrical consumption is used for air conditioningrefindustry.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up1125arrow-down10
arrow-up1125arrow-down1external-linkTIL 70% of Saudi Arabia's electrical consumption is used for air conditioningrefindustry.comUllallulloo@civilloquy.comM to Today I Learned (TIL)@civilloquy.comEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squareUllallulloo@civilloquy.comOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year 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.
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.