{"id":247,"date":"2017-04-25T13:27:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T13:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devt.lvea.lt\/en\/vejo-energetika\/vejo-energijos-privalumai\/"},"modified":"2019-06-07T14:34:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T14:34:10","slug":"advantages","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/devt.lvea.lt\/en\/wind-energy\/advantages\/","title":{"rendered":"Advantages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently, the largest portion of energy is generated from fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas. These natural resources are not renewable; furthermore, as consumption is constantly growing, coal, oil and gas may eventually run out.<\/p>\n<p>Fossil fuels are environmentally harmful as greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, are emitted into the atmosphere during their consumption.<\/p>\n<p>Renewable energy sources, such as the wind, solar and hydro energy, biomass, etc., leaves a much smaller CO<sub>2<\/sub> footprint and are being exploited more and more worldwide. Wind power is one of the most innovative and rapidly developing sources of renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wind power:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>reduces greenhouse gases and other environmental pollution;<\/li>\n<li>creates employment, regional growth, and innovation;<\/li>\n<li>diversifies energy supply, eliminates imported fuels;<\/li>\n<li>provides energy security and prevention of conflict over natural resources;<\/li>\n<li>reduces poverty through improved energy access;<\/li>\n<li>provides a hedge against the price volatility of fossil fuels;<\/li>\n<li>is modular and rapidly installed;<\/li>\n<li>the fuel source is free, abundant and inexhaustible;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>global wind resource is bigger than global power demand.<\/p>\n<p>At this time renewable energy forms a significant part of developed countries&#8217; energy sector. Recognizing the advantages of renewables, such as their inexhaustibility and environmentally friendly nature, the above-mentioned countries are laboring for the progress and the development of renewable energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently, the largest portion of energy is generated from fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas. These natural resources are not renewable; furthermore, as consumption is constantly growing, coal, oil and gas may eventually run out. Fossil fuels are environmentally harmful as greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, are emitted into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":122,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devt.lvea.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devt.lvea.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devt.lvea.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devt.lvea.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devt.lvea.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/devt.lvea.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/devt.lvea.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247\/revisions\/410"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devt.lvea.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devt.lvea.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}