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QrizB

There's a nice article on the Washington Post about how Uruguay decarbonised its electricity and now generated 98% of it renewably. Unfortunately it's paywalled.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2025/09/19/uruguay-renewable-energy-climate-breakthrough/

However, here's an article from last year that isn't:

https://earth.org/the-uruguay-way-achieving-energy-sovereignty-in-the-developing-world/

Exiled_Tyke

QrizB said:

There's a nice article on the Washington Post about how Uruguay decarbonised its electricity and now generated 98% of it renewably. Unfortunately it's paywalled.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2025/09/19/uruguay-renewable-energy-climate-breakthrough/

However, here's an article from last year that isn't:

https://earth.org/the-uruguay-way-achieving-energy-sovereignty-in-the-developing-world/

I posted this from the Guardian on here sometime ago.   

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/dec/27/uruguays-green-power-revolution-rapid-shift-to-wind-shows-the-world-how-its-done

Depressingly, though, today there is this! 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/22/fossil-fuels-coal-gas-oil-extraction-climate-goals-beyond-reach