He got an entire country running on clean energy. Can he do it again?
Ramón Méndez Galain helped Uruguay decarbonize its grid in just five years, with 98 percent of its energy coming from renewable sources.
“We proved that yes, it is possible to manage a power system with almost 100 percent renewables,” said Galain, 64, who was Uruguay’s energy secretary from 2008 to 2015 and now runs a nonprofit organization focused on helping governments achieve a similar transition away from fossil fuels.