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All Electricity in Austria's Largest State Comes from Renewables

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All electricity in Austria's largest state now produced from renewables

Hydroelectric power, wind energy, biomass and solar provide 100% of electricity for 1.65 million people

A butterfly sits on a sunflower in front of a wind generator in Bruck and der Leitha, near Vienna, Austria.
 A butterfly sits on a sunflower in front of a wind generator in Bruck and der Leitha, near Vienna, Austria. Photograph: Herwig Prammer/REUTERS

Agence France-Presse

Friday 6 November 201501.20 GMTLast modified on Friday 6 November 201501.22 GMT

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Austria’s largest state said Thursday that 100 percent of its electricity is now generated using renewable sources of energy.

“We have invested heavily to boost energy efficiency and to expand renewables,” said Erwin Proell, premier of 1.65m-strong Lower Austria.conference.

The state in northeastern Austria now gets 63% of its electricity from hydroelectric power, 26% from wind energy, nine percent from biomass and two percent from solar.

In Austria as a whole, which voted against nuclear power in a 1978 referendum, 75% comes from renewables and the rest from fossil fuels.

Lower Austria has also created 38,000 “green jobs”, Proell said, which the state aims to increase to 50,000 by 2030.

The announcement comes ahead of a gathering of world leaders in Paris in December aimed at reaching an ambitious global deal to tackle climate change.

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