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Cyprus is throwing away more and more renewable solar energy every year as production increases through the unprecedented proliferation of PV parks and government home schemes but with nowhere to store it.
MPs at the House energy committee heard on Tuesday that 167,000 megawatt-hours of RES were wasted in 2024. That would have powered almost 335,000 households for more than a month.
The wasted RES for 2023 was 36,700 megawatt-hours