This podcast often features talks from speakers who explain that we need to make a systematic shift away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energy.

A lot of these speakers have very good plans on how to implement that vision.

But I often find myself wondering about what plans that lead to major change actually look like in practice.

So today, we're hearing from someone who was on the front lines when his country actually made this transition.

Argentina went from having almost no renewable energy to on some days generating nearly 40% of its electricity from wind and solar.

You might think this took decades.

You'd be wrong.

It took only six years.

How did they do it?

This is Ted Business, a podcast from TED.

Renewable Energy Pioneer Sebastian Kind has some takeaways from his home country's success.

In this talk, he explains how to convince countries to embrace renewable energy

by making it as convenient and economically beneficial to everyone as possible,

with an emphasis on long-term commitments and minimizing financial risk.

Then after the talk, I'll discuss what else we can learn from Sebastian's

experience. But first, a quick break. And now, Sebastian Kind takes the TED stage. In just six years,

Argentina, my beautiful home country, went from barely having renewable energy on its grid to one where on some days nearly

of its electricity comes from wind and solar. And this happened in a country globally recognized for its political and economic crisis,

home of a world-class oil and gas industry with the fourth largest shale oil reserve

and the second largest shale gas reserve in the world.

You might be wondering how was that possible, and how can we replicate this all over the world?

I'm going to tell you how. I spent my entire career making renewables a reality. I worked in the

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