Electricity
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The first Industrial Revolution was driven by coal and steam power, combined with the printing press; the second was fueled by centralized
electricity
and the oil-powered internal-combustion engine, together with the telephone, radio, and television.
Switching to energy-saving light bulbs, for example, can reduce a household’s total
electricity
consumption by up to 15%, and could save Europe 40 billion kilowatt-hours per year – a figure that is roughly equivalent to Romania’s current annual consumption.
Likewise, in Brazil, renewables account for about 60% of energy consumption, and more than 99% of the population now has access to electricity, owing to the country’s “light for all” program.
But, for Africa, power requires power in another sense: a lack of
electricity
continues to hold back the continent’s progress.
Despite advances in recent years, more than 600 million Africans still lack access to
electricity.
Rising inflows of private capital have been accompanied by large-scale national energy-sector reforms, which should help increase the availability of
electricity.
All of the African leaders with whom I speak tell me that making
electricity
affordable is a top-priority issue, and most have set ambitious targets for power generation and transmission.
The most efficient way to overcome these costly
electricity
imbalances would be through a common energy market.
Much like the European Union’s internal market for electricity, power trading would ideally extend across Africa and form part of the continued evolution of the African Union, which Rwandan President Paul Kagame is so admirably pushing forward.
Little more than half of the region’s population has access to electricity, and only around 3% of power generation currently crosses borders (based on current capacity levels).
Private capital would be attracted to new opportunities as national markets open up for economies of scale in the production and transmission of
electricity.
More than 18.5 million people in rural areas now have reliable access to solar-powered
electricity.
These are the taxes that governments already levy on
electricity
and fossil fuels.
To be sure, India still gets most of its
electricity
from coal-fired power plants, which account for just under two-thirds of its total energy capacity.
Despite Mexico’s energy riches, for example, the cost of
electricity
for commercial customers is 73% higher than for US businesses.
Many people believe the biggest barrier to the economy is the lack of reliable
electricity.
About 70% of
electricity
produced is lost or stolen.
Less than one-third of households have access to electricity, and for only 5-15 hours a day, leaving many in darkness and forcing businesses to buy expensive diesel generators.
The result would be a significant reduction in EDH’s losses – and more reliable
electricity.
Gordon argues that all of the epochal advances, from running water and
electricity
to the internal combustion and jet engines, have been made.
Electricity, the new technology studied by the eminent Stanford University economic historian Paul David, is a classic case in point.
There was no
electricity
or heat on those cold winter days; no water flowed from the faucets; and there was very little food.
Either technology will depend on a national
electricity
grid that uses low-emission forms of power generation, such as wind, solar, nuclear, or coal-fired plants that capture and store the carbon-dioxide emissions.
For example, forty years ago, when fear of nuclear proliferation was new, my teacher and friend Vassili Leontief, who invented the macroeconomic table of inter-industrial flows, argued that the best indicator of an illegal arms program is massive
electricity
consumption.
Water, Harding announces, would be decomposed “doubtless by electricity” into hydrogen and oxygen.
They function somewhat like a battery, except that their fuel is constantly replenished, reacting electrochemically with the air’s oxygen to make
electricity
to drive an electric motor.
China-Africa trade alone increased from $10 billion in 2000 to $107 billion in 2008, and billions of dollars are being invested in oil production, mining, transportation,
electricity
generation and transmission, telecommunications, and other infrastructure.
In the showcase capital, Pyongyang, there is not even enough
electricity
to keep the lights on in the largest hotels.
International pressure has mounted since the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed last November that the country’s nuclear program was advancing towards the production of nuclear arms, rather than
electricity
or medical isotopes, with new sanctions imposed on Iranian oil exports and on transactions with the Central Bank of Iran.
In Venezuela, subsidies for gasoline and
electricity
are larger than the budget for education and health care combined; exchange-rate subsidies are in a class of their own.
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