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Re:'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for ... by akjshdfkjhs on Friday November 17, 2023 @11:52AM (#38306173)
Itaipu is mostly considered a brazillian infrastructure. Brazil paid for most of the construction, which is why they negotiated very good deals on the agreement with paraguay, which is the size of a brazillian municipality. They pay like $20 per Kw instead of the $400 the market would pay.

the deal is up now btw, so the media is covering paraguay attempt to renegotiate it.

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Re:'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for ... by cesarb on Friday November 17, 2023 @12:02PM (#38306335)
> Paraguay, which is the size of a brazillian municipality.

That's understating that country's size a lot; it's the size of a Brazilian state, not a Brazilian municipality (even if you consider the huge municipalities in the Amazon region).

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Re:'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for ... by skellington on Friday November 17, 2023 @12:38PM (#38306986)
He's talking about population, not physical size.
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