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

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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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CleanDefinition@lemmy.world
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We’ve been at ~95% renewable for years actually, but now we’ve reached 100%

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mihies@kbin.social
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How do you cope when there is cloudy without wind?

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Robust Mirror@aussie.zone
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They also have hydropower which provides a constant base load, and basically they have just heavily optimised their distribution of power to be very efficient. In emergencies they are also able to import power from neighbouring countries.

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remus989@sh.itjust.works
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There are ways to store the power generated by renewables.

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mihies@kbin.social
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There are, but none is feasible today when it comes to mass storage. Or is there one?

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foo@programming.dev
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How often is there no wind anywhere?

How cloudy does it have to be so you can’t generate power?

Is it possible to store power?

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