THE URUGUAY SOLAR AND STORAGE PROJECT
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The country's thermal power plants rarely need to be activated, except when natural resources are insufficient. Half of Uruguay's electricity is generated in the country's dams, and 10% percent comes from agricultural and industrial waste and the sun. But wind, at 38%, is the main protagonist of the revolution in the electrical grid.
To this day, Uruguay continues to rely heavily on its dams, including the imposing Salto Grande on the Río Uruguay, whose power is shared with Argentina, and several on the Río Negro. For decades, electricity from those dams and from generators running on gas and oil imported largely from Argentina and Brazil met Uruguayans' energy needs.
Uruguay was never a huge carbon emitter. When the South American country hit its highest carbon emissions ever in 2012, the average Uruguayan put 2.6 tons of carbon into the atmosphere; that same year, the average individual American carbon footprint was more than 16 tons.
Today, Uruguay has more than 700 wind turbines distributed throughout its territory. “At first glance, the change is seen in many areas of the country: You go down the road and see the modern windmills in rural areas,” Prats said. “Starting in 2010, with the variety of energy sources, and also renewable ones, blackouts became very rare.
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