{"id":48631,"date":"2022-08-09T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/noticias\/94-of-uruguays-electricity-comes-from-renewable-sources\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T13:50:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T18:20:41","slug":"94-of-uruguays-electricity-comes-from-renewable-sources","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/94-of-uruguays-electricity-comes-from-renewable-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"94% of Uruguay&#8217;s electricity comes from renewable sources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By<\/strong>: Franyi Sarmiento, Ph.D., Inspenet, August 9, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uruguay has managed to become a country whose electricity generation matrix is almost entirely renewable thanks to the sun, wind and water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to data from the Uruguayan Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining last June, 94% of the electricity consumed during 2020 came from sustainable sources, with wind energy in first place (40%), followed by hydroelectric (30%), biomass (20%) and solar (4%). Only 6% of the electricity matrix had originated from fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How did this accelerated conversion to green sources of electricity generation come about? With a political agreement among all the forces with legislative representation, long-term vision, state leadership and private investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The full support of all political forces, the creation of a transformative ecosystem that allowed the arrival of investments and flexible governance opened the door to a change in the energy matrix that was made in just a few years&#8221; explains Ram\u00f3n M\u00e9ndez, Uruguay&#8217;s energy secretary between 2008 and 2015, during the Frente Amplio governments, when the first transition to green energy took place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to its geographical characteristics, Uruguay can generate 30% of the electricity it consumes in hydroelectric dams and has also invested in other renewables: 40% comes from wind energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This material from FmMeridiano985.com.ar was edited for clarity, style and length.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> https:\/\/fmmeridiano985.com.ar\/noticias\/argentina-mundo\/como-hizo-uruguay-para-que-el-94-de-su-electricidad-proviniera-de-fuentes-renovables\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Franyi Sarmiento, Ph.D., Inspenet, August 9, 2022.<br \/>\nUruguay has managed to become a country whose electricity generation matrix is almost entirely renewable thanks to the sun, wind and water.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":838,"featured_media":46843,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categoria_noticias":[13066,13030],"etiqueta_noticias":[],"class_list":["post-48631","noticias","type-noticias","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria_noticias-electricity-generation","categoria_noticias-industry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/48631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticias"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/48631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria_noticias?post=48631"},{"taxonomy":"etiqueta_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etiqueta_noticias?post=48631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}