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‘Energy independent’ Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months (theprogressplaybook.com)

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"with wind the single-biggest contributor.... Power production costs have declined “by almost half” .... And the clean energy sector has created 50,000 new jobs.... Ask me what was the impact on the electricity sector in Uruguay after this tragic war in Europe — zero."

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[-] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 31 points 1 year ago

They also have hydropower which provides a constant base load, and basically they have just heavily optimised their distribution of power to be very efficient. In emergencies they are also able to import power from neighbouring countries.

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