{"id":6636,"date":"2015-12-05T00:38:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T16:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6636"},"modified":"2015-12-05T00:38:14","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T16:38:14","slug":"how-uruguay-shifted-from-fossil-fuels-to-95-clean-electricity-in-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/05\/how-uruguay-shifted-from-fossil-fuels-to-95-clean-electricity-in-10-years\/","title":{"rendered":"How Uruguay Shifted from Fossil Fuels to 95% Clean Electricity in 10 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/usuncut.com\/climate\/uruguay\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/onthe8spot.com\/onthe8spot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/turbines2.jpg?w=525\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>As world leaders gather in Paris to discuss how to curb global climate change,\u00a0the people of Uruguay are enjoying affordable clean energy with very little pollution.Over the last decade, Uruguay has transitioned over from total reliance on dirty fossil fuels and is now getting more than 94 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources. What\u2019s more\u00a0amazing is that Uruguay made the switch without any government subsidies and is now providing citizens with lower monthly energy bills than before.\u201cWhat we\u2019ve learned is that renewables is just a financial business,\u201d says Ram\u00f3n M\u00e9ndez, National Director of Energy. \u201cThe construction and maintenance costs are low, so as long as you give investors a secure environment, it is a very attractive [business].\u201dHe is also quick to point out that while the plan they have followed is simple, it didn\u2019t happen overnight.\u201cWe had to go through a crisis to reach this point. We spent 15 years in a bad place,\u201d M\u00e9ndez told The Guardian. \u201cBut in 2008, we launched a long-term energy policy that covered everything \u2026 Finally we had clarity.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/usuncut.com\/climate\/uruguay\/\">How Uruguay Shifted from Fossil Fuels to 95% Clean Electricity in 10 Years<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As world leaders gather in Paris to discuss how to curb global climate change,\u00a0the people of Uruguay are enjoying affordable clean energy with very little pollution.Over the last decade, Uruguay has transitioned over from total reliance on dirty fossil fuels and is now getting more than 94 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/05\/how-uruguay-shifted-from-fossil-fuels-to-95-clean-electricity-in-10-years\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Uruguay Shifted from Fossil Fuels to 95% Clean Electricity in 10 Years&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}