One of the main reasons the big players want (or even need) as many people globally to remain dependent on it as possible - control.

Yes, I think that one of the side effect of the war in Ukraine will be a big increase of renewables energy in Europe.

European countries started to realize how fragile their energy supply is and how dangerous it is.

...Except China, where most renewables are produced.

does anyone ever assume that it's anything other than the grid when it comes to some article like this?

I remembered reading many years ago about large solar plants in SA and I wondered what happened to that. Apparently Zuma happened: From a world leader in renewables, to years behind, thanks to Zuma and his cronies.

https://martinplaut.com/2022/07/14/how-zuma-and-his-cronies-destroyed-plans-for-south-africas-renewable-energy-revolution/

But I bet the companies make a lot of profit on that, so all good \s

You know you need a lot of sun and wind for renewable energy?

Pretty sure South Africa has too little of it unlike those sunny and wind torn countries like, don't know... Germany?

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/UY

You can select 30d, year... And see how much was used for that period.

This aspect is a big aspect of intermittent renewables energy that is often dismissed: you need piloted energy as a backup, the amount of piloted energy depend on how oversized is the intermittent energy installation.

For renewable piloted energy there is two options that I know of: hydro and biomass. Uruguay is using both.

It's something to keep in mind if we want to reach 100% renewables without nuclear, we need to increase the biomass electricity production.

On another hand we are already using a lot of biomass to produce ethanol and biodiesel. A lot of land is also use for animal feed, so I'm a society with less ICE cars and less meat eated we might have enough land to grow biomass for electricity generation.

i think evs are still too expensive for the common uruguaian(?) wallet. so they still use oil for cars. but 4 months 100% renewables is great news.

Presumably mostly for transportation sector. EV adoption should lower that.