Optimist Daily: How Uruguay Achieved 98% Renewable Energy

During the 2000s, as global fossil fuel costs skyrocketed, Uruguay faced a tremendous issue. Uruguay, heavily reliant on foreign oil and paying exorbitant prices to for electricity from neighboring countries, found itself in an energy crisis. (Then) physicist Ramón Méndez Galain, spearheaded a radical shift towards clean energy - wind and hydropower…