{"id":3104,"date":"2022-10-05T13:28:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T16:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundacionivy.org\/international-media-highlight-energy-transition-in-uruguay\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T14:44:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:44:31","slug":"international-media-highlight-energy-transition-in-uruguay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundacionivy.org\/en\/international-media-highlight-energy-transition-in-uruguay\/","title":{"rendered":"International media highlight energy transition in Uruguay"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>This week DW and the New York Times published articles highlighting the Uruguayan energy transition process.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><br \/>In the first case<a href=\"https:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/4HjvW\">(https:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/4HjvW)<\/a> the reality of Germany is compared with that of Uruguay, &#8220;in Germany, the expansion of wind energy is not progressing, endangering the energy transition. Uruguay, however, is almost completely independent of fossil fuel and could be an example to follow&#8221;, to then describe the two realities and highlight the origins and agreements around a public policy that ended up putting Uruguay at the top of the world, and in this case &#8220;the envy of Germany&#8221;.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>In 2008, Uruguay&#8217;s &#8220;Energy Policy 2005-2030&#8221; was drawn up, a plan that was ridiculed by many at first, but to which all parties committed themselves. Today, 98 % of Uruguay&#8217;s electricity comes from renewable sources, led by wind power at 40 %, followed by hydroelectric, biomass and solar energy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><br \/>This issue was also addressed by the New York Times (https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/05\/magazine\/uruguay-renewable-energy.html), which gave Uruguay as an example, not only for its achievements in the transformation, but also for its courage in addressing &#8220;the main challenge facing humanity, to reduce emissions without falling into pre-industrial poverty&#8221;, the article states &#8220;A small country is leading the way&#8221;.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week DW and the New York Times published articles highlighting the Uruguayan energy transition process.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-3104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionivy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionivy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionivy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionivy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionivy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionivy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3851,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionivy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104\/revisions\/3851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionivy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionivy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionivy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionivy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}