Uruguay Makes Dramatic Shift to Nearly 95% Electricity from Clean Energy

“Uruguay gets 94.5% of its electricity from renewables. In addition to old hydropower plants, a hefty investment in wind, biomass and solar in recent years has raised the share of these sources in the total energy mix to 55%, compared with a global average of 12%, and about 20% in Europe.”

Read the full story: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/03/uruguay-makes-dramatic-shift-to-nearly-95-clean-energy

(The Guardian, Dec. 2015)

Renewables now provide 94.5% of Uruguay’s electricity. Photo by Mariana Greif Etchebehere/Bloomberg/Getty Images.

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