‘Energy independent’ Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months - eviltoast

“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.”

  • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    Yes, I think that one of the side effect of the war in Ukraine will be a big increase of renewables energy in Europe.

    European countries started to realize how fragile their energy supply is and how dangerous it is.

    • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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      1 year ago

      Sadly, in the meantime it also mean a surge of imports of fossil fuels from other countries and reopening extraction sites in EU. Reducing fossil fuel dependency really is the top priority of EU, not only for ecology but also for peace and for the economy.