The Race to Renewable Energy

I read an article called "Race to renewable; five developing countries ditching fossil fuels". This article (which can be found here) shows how five developing countries are successfully making the switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy. The five countries talked about in the article are Costa Rica, Afghanistan, China, India and Albania. As of 2015 Costa Rica is the first developing country to have 100% of their energy come from renewable sources like hydro, wind and geothermal sources.

This is a view of solar panels on the roofs of greenhouses in China.

Even though Albania is a small country they are making big leaps in renewable energy. In 2013 they passed a law that promotes renewable energy growth. For such a small country I think that they are making big progress that some other countries, like ours, are not.

This article really brings up a lot of good points about why certain countries do or do not have renewable energy sources being used. I think that this article shows the difficulties of switching to renewable energy right along with the benefits, which is very important because other similar articles tend to gloss over the difficulties that countries might face if they were to switch over.