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‘Energy independent’ Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months (theprogressplaybook.com)
submitted 1 year ago by kalkulat to c/technology
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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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[–] Vrtrx 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah in a perfect world, Germany would have kept their npp and phased out coal first instead but it's not a perfect world sadly and considering the npp operators were heavily campaigning against renewables Germany probably wouldn't have invested that much in renewables if npp weren't phased out. The only problem now is that Germany didn't keep their momentum for investing in and expending renewables