Lessons from Uruguay's energy transition
by editors@theworld.org (Hannah Chanatry) from The World: Latest Stories on (#73V5K)
The small South American country of Uruguay is an energy transition success story. Once importing most of its fuel, the country now generates almost all of it's electricity from renewable resources. The transformation is thanks to one man, Ramon Mendez Galain, who served as the country's National Director of Energy from 2008 to 2015. He spoke with The World's Host Carolyn Beeler about how this happened, and what he learned.