David Roberts interview the man who decarbonized Uruguay on his podcast Volts. They discuss how it happened the first time, and how it could be replicated. He believes that every country could realistically achieve an 80% renewable grid.
Decarbonized Uruguay’s electricity grid almost completely*
While it’s great, there’s still quite a ways to go for them. Their far above average beef consumption is not helping.
Uruguay is also blessed with some spectacular opportunities for hydro power, so their experience unfortunately doesn’t entirely generalize to every other country, but I’m sure he will have lessons to teach others, without a doubt.
The first time I read that I was thinking, why does he almost completely want to do it?
I get there eventually.
I read it that way too. Needed your comment to figure it out!
Hahaha. They changed the hed on the article. We’re not the only ones to get confused.
He helped Uruguay decarbonize. Can he help other countries do the same?