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‘Energy independent’ Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months (theprogressplaybook.com)

submitted 10 months ago by kalkulat@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] mihies@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Even worse, they prematurely closed their nuclear power plants, even recently. 🤦‍♂️

[–] Vrtrx@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You seem to be the type of person that doesn't understand that you just can't easily decide from one day to another to keep nuclear power plants online, that where decided to go offline soon over 10 years ago. Supply chains already adapted, technically necessary inspections weren't performed because it would soon shut down etc. You just cant easily revert a plan to turn off all nuclear power plans by a certain date from 10 years ago just days or weeks before that date.

[–] mihies@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Did I ever say that, though? Global warming didn't happen yesterday, it's well known for decades. The decision to close npps in first place wasn't very clever, not revoking the decision later was even worse (I don't know what was the last possible date to revoke it, I admit - but it's not easy is a bad excuse). This brilliant plan is resulting in huge pollution while having plenty of renewable sources and spending a ton of money on those.
Edit: grammar

[–] Vrtrx@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months 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