Uruguay: The clean energy transition | Global Ideas
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- Uruguay generates over 90% of its power from renewables. The country now wants to pass on its know-how, and is training special engineers for the task. But despite all its success, Uruguay still has to convince some of its own people.
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Uruguay is such a beacon of hope for the world. So progressive and forward thinking ❤️
Be careful... those lately called "so progressive" committed all kind of fraud in the name of socialism! I prefer the progressivism we had before them, without Marxism influence and the New Left! In 1904 we had the most progressive president ever, who did real changes, like 8 hours law for workers, divorce for women without an explanation (to avoid violence from their partner), he promoted women suffrage, schools became free and mandatory, etc..
As a native Uruguayan it makes me proud to see this. Uruguay has been a model in many areas and usually is not noticed because of its small size sandwiched between two giants (with many problems). In a way, it is good like a hidden gem.
You should be proud , well done Uruguay 👏❤
I agree! Being a gigantic country with enormous resources makes them fall prey to the Paradox of Plenty.
Let’s hope it stays that way and doesn’t get exploited.
You should be proud, setting an example for the world. Thanks to your nation for leading.
Uruguay is the best country in SA. The way they've handled COVID and weed legalization is an example for the world.
Good Job, Uruguay. You've set an amazing example. 🙏🏾
all this in only 10 years. just amazing. show the world how its done Uruguay
Uruguay has had more than 50% energy production coming from renewables for decades already. You can check the data. But true that in the last 10 years, with help of privatisation and some new policies, the shift towards almost 100% renewables has been dramatic.
😄🏞️🇺🇾🌐
@@CX-ns4ft privatization is a scam..the usa is privatized and not on renewables because if it
Uruguay needs much more international attention, not only because its energy policies, but because its democratic level, and its very advanced social policies.
is there somewhere i could read or watch more about it?
Sole developed country in South America
It shouldnt get any attention because politics on the international level seems to be harmful. Better not be noticed. Too much hate right now in the world. Right?
@@jnusslein6301 - to be fair, Chile and Argentina rank higher by HDI. Uruguay does seem more stable and less unequal, though.
@@jnusslein6301 no. it's not developed. economy is mainly cows, but life quality is good.
Uruguay 🇺🇾 role model of South America
*Latin America*
Their almost abrupt transition to renewables sources is extraordinary and fascinating. It shows it can be done if people sit down and do the work.
Well - if you have a population of just 3.47 million it's not such a big deal! In London where I live we have 9.4 million people living in an area less than 1% of the size of Uruguay!
@@sutapasbhattacharya9471 So? You're also a larger country, much much richer, and have vast resources of wind, tidal energy and solar. And you benefit greatly from having access to the mainland electricity market. The UK is even building a new fancy high voltage DC cable to Norway, and Norway just auctioned off a whole metric fuckton of offshore wind. They don't need the power, btw, it's to sell it to the UK and Germany.
Uruguai has done well, the UK has also done rather well, at least you're not producing too much energy from coal nowadays. I wasn't criticising the UK, btw.
Congrats Uruguay!
Wow. Very impressive. Amazing what a country can achieve when there's political will and politicians that actually work for the people instead of special interests.
Just means the people vote for politicians that do that.
@@cancerino666 And the electorate is not so dumb
@ana sheee - Do you have any proof of that? Where is the contract you "had" to sign? You are very evasive. You don't say what country you are in, etc... So it is difficult to take you seriously. You come across like a troll, aside from the fact that your comment does not make any sense.
@@teleopinions1367 there is no proof, it's nonsense. wind and solar used to be expensive. the latest contracts for new wind and solar farms come with power purchase agreements in the 35-75 euros/MWh, which is already cheaper than coal and even cheaper than gas.
in places where wind and solar are built, no one's forcing anyone. most people want to lend their land for wind, at least, because they get decent income from it, and they can continue using the land once the wind turbines are up.
The county has a population of 3.5 million people ,that's the smaller than the city of Los Angeles. Im, sure the US could do it also if LA was the only people living in the US.
Gets trickier with 1.4 billion China though. Wind and Sun can not keep that smog monster fed.
Respect for the people of uruguay for embracing renewables..hope my country the philippines could also learn from your experiences. We are also starting in wind and solar.
Good job! Can't remember last I heard any news at all from Uruguay. Quietly moving forward without making a fuss I guess :-)
Uruguay is the perfect country in South America. Very safe and developed.
Agree with you , it has been for a while don't hear about this country from news reports
josé mujica was the uruguay president in 2010-2015 hes the coolest politican ive ever seen
@@user-qb1sc3vx4e The Country has a population smaller than the City of Los Angeles.
That may be why.
Uruguay is like a heaven on earth, amazing to watch a country to achieve such a huge goal.
Uruguay seems really cool. I would love to visit
You are welcome
Sad that this will never ever happen in the U.S. too many special interests and politics that care about money only. I applaud Uruguay for being a global leader in teaching the rest us how to fight climate change.
The county has a population of 3.5 million people ,that's the smaller than the city of Los Angeles. Im, sure the US could do it also if LA was the only people living in the US.
Gets trickier with 1.4 billion China though. Wind and Sun can not keep that smog monster fed.
@@Crashed131963 Agreed. Renewables need ideal conditions and don't scale well. Not to mention the mass amount of fossil fuels to produce.
That's a great conscious step towards the betterment of our mother nature. Admirable....
Well that‘s just inspirational. Such a small country proving the world wrong. Uruguay is a shining example for the rest of us
@T C why? What do you mean?
@William Santos i think you are very confused dude, honestly
@William Santos maybe you are getting confused idk
Good Work of the People in Uruguay
So proud to be from Uruguay. Uruguay nomá!!
If the solar panels are raised a little higher, it could also serve as areas for planting crops that might not like a lot of sunlight
There are translation panels that are used in that way in many places.
Good idea. And there are lots of them.
Carrots ,beets ,cabbage , peas, Cauliflower and on and on.
As a distribution engineer, this video makes me happy, all except at 2.44 where the student is wearing a large metal ring and then putting the insulated gloves on. Ring off old chap when you work with higher voltage electricity.
Lawl true
Wise move for all countries which want to become more energy independent from the corrupt oil/gas producers.
Thats the thing that so many people miss. Like in this so called „energy crisis“ right now. We could be completely independent from that….😂
The county has a population of 3.5 million people ,that's the smaller than the city of Los Angeles. Im, sure the US could do it also if LA was the only people living in the US.
Gets trickier with 1.4 billion China though. Wind and Sun can not keep that smog monster fed.
@@Crashed131963 China in some month's can generate 50% of it's electricity already from renewables alone.
The us has hit over 30% of generation capacity several months of this year through just renewables.
If we tried and applied ourselves in a war time like footing.
By 2028 we could easily be at 90+%renewables. And have concerted most of the fleet to evs.
We need just 100 square miles covered with solar panels at today's current efficiency levels to power the entire U.S.
@@4literv6 The elephant in the room.
We had 4.3 billion people in 1980 now we have 7.9 billion. In 2050 will be at 10 billion people.
More people using less still use more than less people using more.
@HunterBidensCrackPipe in theory or on a graph sure it does. But in real world conditions it would require something akin to what I said.
Moving to a wartime footing in the push to clean the grid up, wean off imported fossil fuels and bring massive amounts of renewables online.
Just this year in the U.S. though we hit periods of over 30% of energy generation coming from renewables. So it can and imo should be done. 🤔
I love Uruguay
Uruguay is such a wonderful country.
i am moving to 🇺🇾Uruguay
The next thing Uruguay needs to work on, is grid scale electric energy storage. With that, they can insure 24/7 power availability, especially, once they electrify their transportation sector. (both private, and public mass transit systems) They can be virtually free from the market volatilities, of various imported fuels.
We don't need storage because we generate electricity 24/7, our only problem when talking about energy is oil, we don't produce any so, besides the pollution, a lot of things are made very expensive because of transport costs
Kudos to Uruguay and I hope and pray my country, the US, continues to slowly but surely migrate. Cast a disdainful gaze at anyone who decries renewables and wants us to stay on fossil fuels.
It is actually disappointing to see a fairly small country with certainly fewer resources than places like the U.S or the E.U being able to advance so fast, while the big players are still the puppets of the big polluters...
See Costa Rica and you'll be shocked. They go almost a year with full renewable.
@@frankieseward8667 they are regional leaders of course
South American Switzerland.
Do cattle get spooked by wind turbines? Nope, the cattle are fine.
Creating wind turbine parks nearby cattle ranches are a good idea.
Renewable energy is going to move the world forward alright.
Actually cattle & livestock are a MASSIVE part of the problem, even if the entire planet switched to 100% renewables tomorrow we would still go over 2C due to the GHG emissions released both by the animal agriculture sector and the land use change resulting from ever-increasing demand from people wanting to eat evermore meat & dairy.
Animal agriculture will become the #1 emitter of GHG as fossil fuels are replaced by renewable energies if people don't switch to plant-based alternatives. Compensating the methane emissions of cows alone would be insanely costly.
@@subjectnamehere3023 Of course, then, by exchanging meat for vegetables, we will have massive deforestation and a greater increase in the lack of water worldwide.
it takes more water and space to give the same amount of calories as a single ectare of cattle
Ahead of the curve, considering the price of gas and coal has skyrocketed!!
and will continue to climb till fossil fuels have disappeared.
Well done Uruguay ! Kicking goals ❤
Good for you Uruguay! Greetings from your neighboor🇧🇷
rio grande do sul e nosso 😠
Good job.
There is a good title for another episode. "Uruguay does more about Climate Change, than Australia"
I was thinking than the world super powers. But yes good to shame those of us who are lagging.
yes pretty embarrassing how little renewables Australia has considering their vast wind and solar potential
Doesn’t Singapore have /own a hugeeeee solar farm in Australia sending them power ... yet Australia doesn’t 🤦♀️🤦♀️
and any otherc ountry
My cat does more for climate change than Australia. I have seen though, on other science channels, that many Australian scientists are involved in cutting edge climate science, and Australia is facing a brain drain as they flee the 19th Century back home.
Uruguay is now truly developed!!
Uruguay is a 3rd world country.
We are 3rd word still
But who knows maybe in 2 decades if everything goes well who knows
@Joaquin Pampliega please visit the slums of Santiago before telling me that Chile is "almost developed".
@Joaquin Pampliega even America's poorest state, Mississippi, is more than twice as rich as your country.
@Joaquin Pampliega Yes, there are isolated pockets of slums in developed countries, but nothing even close to the scale and poverty of the shanty towns that I've seen in Chile.
This I a very encouraging move by Uruguay. I wonder if they can advise countries that rely on heavy industry to see how a variable power supply can be enhanced for the greater need of supply.
This country always surprised me
That is amazing, we don't hear much from Uruguay but this is a model for other countries.
Great news and great job Uruguay!
Fantastic! More countries please.
Very nice, good luck!
Intelligent nation. Meanwhile here in Europe... 🤦♂️
Europe, how could it not have seen what would happen when the oil and gas from the north sea ran out?
The county has a population of 3.5 million people ,that's the smaller than the city of Los Angeles. Im, sure the US could do it also if LA was the only people living in the US.
Gets trickier with 1.4 billion China though. Wind and Sun can not keep that smog monster fed.
somewhat ironically most of the experts that we brought here came from spain and denmark.
Europe is doing good too
@@MayankKumar-ge7tb Not when Putin shuts off the gas to Europe this winter.
Better open more Nuclear power plants Germany not close them all down.
Good on them, they have the smarts not like the rest of us.
It would be interesting to hear explained, in depth, how they balance the power of solar, wind, and hydro. As we all have heard, with inconsistent power supply, natural gas, nuclear or coal is need when renewable are not enough, but Uruguay is making it work.
I'm trying to figure out how Uruguay uses forest and other biomass to generate electricity and biofuels. I like forests.
@@sandal_thong8631 Uruguay is a well known country farming cattle. The only way to farm cattle is deforestation of native vegetation.
@@vitormascarenhas4884 like the US Midwest, the majority of Uruguay was grassland before colonization, so there was no deforestation there. The majority of native forest where and still are in lowlands next to rivers. Actually Uruguay is one of the few countries in the world that has increased its natural forest area (and I´m not talking about eucalyptus and pine plantations, which has also increased)
@Botch he is from Brazil so he assumes it works like there (cut the jungle for cattle), but there is no jungle in Uruguay.
I am from Uruguay and I would like to say that the electricity is always on. I can't understand what some people continue argument against the wind energy becose is unpredictable. Is true you need to instale 130 if you want 100 and have some fósil backup just in case. But is far away from impossible
@William Santos 0.22 € per kV-h for normal people. Here the energy always was expensive than our neighbors and now with this change in real terms, for as is cheaper, around 10% less than a decade before
@William Santos the electric State own company UTE have Profits all this years. Some people are angry about that, because in some how is a kind of extra tax, instead lowering the price to the real price. (Sorry for my English mistakes)
they are amazing
Congratulations Uruguay you set an example for the rest of the world and for us here in Europe with our excessive reliance in fossil fuels.
Amazing!! Certainly setting a good example for the rest of us!
Appreciated efforts
So a relatively poor country (ranked 80th for GDP) can almost complete its transition to clean energy and my own country Australia (ranked 12th) is still debating over whether such a transition should even happen at all???? Someone please teleport me to Uruguay and help me forget my own country's utter utter stupidity and shortsightedness.
It probably has to do with a lack of ff resources. The countries which don't have a profit motive to keep the ff industry alive will be the first to leave in on the past.
not a problem, we now spend 90 billions on submarins, climate can take a number and get on the line for turn-
@@DanA-nl5uo I think the biggest reason is still the lobbying from Australia's large coal industry. They'll drag on the development as long as they can
Total GDP is not a per capita income. Uruguay is not a “relatively poor country”
poor country?
Outstanding
Uruguay a la vanguardia de la energía renovable... Bravo... 👏 👏 👏
well done!
Yes!!
Uruguay is indeed the canada of South America...progressive, socialist & moving forward towards better future.
Socialism is progressive? 😂 then how come it has never worked
@@Darkbrandon668 He says, as capitalism is failing on an unprecedented scale.
@@PistonAvatarGuy meanwhile typing this comment on your phone …
@@Darkbrandon668 Nope, and I wouldn't even need to be concerned about using my decade-old desktop computer to type this comment if capitalists hadn't f--ked things up so badly.
@@Darkbrandon668 with the same logic you can discredit capitalism because of the Great Depression.
when you manage a small country this is possible. southern america should think about smaller countries indeed
Small is a advantage the have half the people of the City of Toronto Canada.
There are small countries like Ecuador, Guyana, Suriname... I don't think that is all that matters since they're not in the same league as Uruguay. But I have to say that Uruguay could not be in this state of progress in renewables if it was still a 'state' of Brazil. Big countries in SA still are over centralized, they need more independence from the federal government, to have green policies like that.
Another point is SA has plenty of natural resources. Even a big country with 200M like Brazil is running 70% on renewables.
@@Crashed131963still no excuse for Canada, they have millions of Km2s of barren land where they probably could build turbines
@@edwardbrown3721 I dont think Canada can help the planet .
China burns more coal than North America South America and Europe combined .
China has more cars on the road than the USA has people .
Without China involved you can not clean the CO2 of the planet .
Nice video and very optimistic but I would like more information about how they manage the periods when there is little or no wind or sun. Do they have a lot of pumped hydro to be able to store the excess energy for example?
Biomass and hydro. Still producing a lot of co2, but not even applicable to most territories. More lies or incomplet informations to sell renewable energies.
Hi Jonathan, yes, we do have a 1 hydro MW per MW of wind energy. We are also working on electric transportation and green hydrogen to find a better use of surpluses.
@@nicolascastroman5185 hi! why is it preferable to produce hydrogen? can't you just use the Fischer-Tropsch process to make synthetic hydrocarbons?
@@NaumRusomarov Hi Naum, it's a good point, but as far as I know, the government is thinking about hydrogen not only for transportation use, but also to foster chemical industry under an exportation business model, delivering H2 through different carriers (like ammonia for fertilizers). We are still in a pilot phase.
@@nicolascastroman5185 aha. yes that makes sense, you do need to produce hydrogen if you want to export ammonia. it does seem like other countries as well are looking into using ammonia for this purpose. I wish success to everyone.
Wow, fantastic thank you
Cool !
Fantastic!!
I always think of Homer Simpson, when thinking of Uruguay.
como uruguayo puedo decir que nuestras políticas energéticas están firmemente orientadas hacia la NO dependencia de los combustibles fósiles. Ahora mismo hay emprendimientos privados para la producción de hidrogeno verde. Todo esto gracias a políticas de estado de largo aliento y visión de futuro ...
Great initiative. Is the energy prices there lower than another countries?
Not really, but Uruguay is alway more expensive than it's neighbours so we don't really have a good comparison
Just do it mentality! Great.
The first counts which don't need oil, gas is the first country which will be not depend on USA or Russia or other suppliers. The dollar won't stand long because it is powered by influence of the American market and military.
Finally someone realizes that.
The county has a population of 3.5 million people ,that's the smaller than the city of Los Angeles. Im, sure the US could be green if LA was the only people living in the US.
Gets trickier with 1.4 billion China though. Wind and Sun can not keep that smog monster fed.
World should learn from this ..no matter where you are but just at least start it
👏👏
Oh , yeah there exists a country called Uruguay
saudi Arabia, qatar, kuwait, iran left the chat 🤣😁for good
Electricity from present day Wind turbines still need backup for when the Wind isn't at the adequate Strength and often this backup is from Natural Gas. Thus Wind electricity often has a certain amount of Green washing. Improvements in Battery storage on a large scale be one option to decoupling of wind power from Natural Gas Power.
At less than 3,5 million inhabitants and basically no mayor manufacturing industry, energy goals can be met very well. Good job
Which contry supplied Wind Mills ? Maybe Spain, manufactory of wind miils is tremendes demand now.
@@ilyashick3178 afaik most of our Mills came from Europe and China
Rest must follow religiously to save the world environment for our future.
There was 4.3 billion people in 1980 ,now there is 7.9 billion and 10 billion predicted in 2050.
More people use "MORE" of "EVERYTHING". Nothing will change that cold math.
Awesome
US citizen here. We are soooooo far behind. Hoping that the fuckery in our congress will get worked out.
The county has a population of 3.5 million people ,that's the smaller than the city of Los Angeles. Im, sure the US could do it also if LA was the only people living in the US.
Gets trickier with 1.4 billion China though. Wind and Sun can not keep that smog monster fed.
@@Crashed131963 so what? If every county or state acted as their own nation to implement such infrastructure, it’s entirely feasible in any nation. USA has plenty of resources and is vast.
Where do the solar panels come from?
Wow
Bet it’s cheaper now
One problem as the wind is uncertain, sometimes strong...sometimes weak...How can the generator convert more power before distributing it to the grid...
I am from Uruguay and there is always too much wind so much that sometimes it is dangerous for people with few resources
Uruguay has only 3 million people in an area of 176 thousand sq km. It's 205th in populational density. But more than that: it's almost ALL fields. The pampas. With the population concentrated in Montevideo.
Their total population is smaller than the population of the southernmost Brazilian metropolitan area, that of Porto Alegre, with 4 million people.
It's energy consumption is only 3,412 kWh per capita.
What that means is that Uruguay can supply all their energy by using a small amount of land.
For most countries, and GERMANY IS PRIME EXAMPLE, you should have a mix of renewables AND NUCLEAR.
I repeat it: Germany is the prime example. A country that has INCREASED it's carbon fuels usage by getting rid of it's nuclear powerplants.
Germany is a real example of how not to decarbonise. I am ok with nuclear although I don't think that my country, Greece, needs it as we have loads of sun, loads of wind, a bit of geothermal and loads of hydro (which is not very productive because even though we have mountains, we don't have much rain, but could be converted to pumped hydro and since that recycles the water, production capacity could be increased significantly)
Switch to renewable ASAP
amo mi pais🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾
Che, las baterías y los paneles para los molinos ¿Se hacen con materiales verdes?
Muchachos la energía eólica está bien como opción, pero eso de que no contamina es una mentira y de que hay que reemplazar las otras fuentes de energía por esta es un error que Alemania y Texas pagaron caro.
Uruguay and chile are leading in south America.
What makes it work is the hydropower. The problem with the hydropower is the environmental destruction caused by the backed up water. The water also varies causing further destruction. What would be useful would be high temprature nuclear with heat storage. This would be compatible the wind and solar and would also be able to supply process heat for industrial uses.
The county has a population of 3.5 million people ,that's the smaller than the city of Los Angeles. Im, sure the US could do it also if LA was the only people living in the US.
Gets trickier with 1.4 billion China though. Wind and Sun can not keep that smog monster fed.
In Uruguay it's not really an option because it's very expensive, and we don't have uranium, we don't want to depend on foreign energy imports, that was one of the ideas behind this system
small educated countries are just there , in the first world , misery and ignorance are a nightmare
Uruguay is líke a european country in South América. A little isle of light in a dark sea
Brazil Will be The great giant of world clean energy
So, no cars, trucks, busses? What about planes or trains?
WOWWW!
that is freaking awesome! way to go Uruguay! way to go! now go enjoy your coal-free air :)
China puts more C02 in the planet's air than North America and Europe combined but these small countries think they will make a difference.
Same here in Canada. We carbon taxed 37 million people thinking it will save the world's air somehow.
The translation has many errors , for example the engineer does see himself as a pioneer, but also the others etc.
Ok but what about stability? What if it's not windy and/or there is bad weather?
It might be viable solution for small population of Uruguay but bigger countries? Only option is nuclear
The larger the area of your country the more, local variations get balanced out against eachother, small countries have it harder to implement a primarily wind and photovoltaic based grid.
EV adoption is happening exponentially so it won't be long until Uruguay has greened it's energy system and transport system. A great example of what can be acheived with the political will.
Nobody is looking to fled for North. Government of Uruguay is taking action to bring good paying jobs to get 100 % renewables supply. Model example for whole Latin America contries incliding social justige.
How do they manage interruptions? Germany and Texas has spectacular failures in this mater a while ago.
Mayby because Uruguays electricity sector is state own so lobbyism like it happened with lignite in Germany and gas in Texas can´t happen.
@@deathgun3110 XD
Uau unbelievable, now i know how they won 2 world cups! Cause they're real human with real man and most of all they love their country. Well done!
if you want a renewable energy that do not have problems use nuclear energy
When solar panels are too expensive including the batteries in the country
Solar and wind is the cheapest form of new energy generation today.
Solar is not really good here
We have a climate more like England but with no snow
But wind oh gods we have wind
@@DanA-nl5uo Nuclear is because the simplicity the costs come from dealing with Chinese/Russians.
Solar panels are fine for fun projects not real results
Por el fin el vaquiero ha cambiado una persona contenta...