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With one daily minimum wage in Venezuela, you can buy barely a half-pound (227 grams) of beef or 12 eggs, or 1,000 liters (264 gallons) of gasoline or 5,100 kWh of
electricity
– enough to power a small town.
Moreover, since the government is unable to pay providers the necessary subsidy to keep prices low, output collapses, as has happened with Venezuela’s
electricity
and health sectors, among others.
As an independent member of the boards of
electricity
utility RAO UES and the gas giant Gazprom, I know directly of their waywardness.
To solve the issue of government set
electricity
rates, to stop theft and mismanagement, to put the company’s house in order before any “restructuring.”
Such sources are already helping to reduce dependence on coal and gas for
electricity
production.
Almost 150 years after Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, some 620 million Africans – two-thirds of the region’s population – live without access to
electricity.
The international community has set the goal of guaranteeing universal access to
electricity
and modern energy by 2030.
Yet the number of people lacking access to
electricity
in Sub-Saharan Africa is on the rise.
Based on current trends, there will be 15 million more people living without
electricity
in the region in 15 years.
While the minority of Africans connected to national grids – most of whom are wealthy – benefit from cheap, heavily subsidized
electricity
delivered through state utilities, the unconnected majority pays about $10 per kilowatt-hour of energy delivered in the form of charcoal, batteries, candles, and kerosene.
For one, delivering affordable energy to the poor does not figure prominently in the priorities of Africa’s state utilities, which function largely as vehicles for delivering cheap
electricity
to the wealthy, creating opportunities for patronage, and, as in the case of Tanzania, enabling large-scale institutionalized theft.
Wind energy, for example, is about 1.5 to 2 times as expensive as
electricity
from coal-fired plants.
The wind farms that we built convert the wind’s kinetic energy into
electricity.
The revenues gained from selling the
electricity
is used to repay CRC Breeze Finance’s long-term debt.
In Germany, the Renewable Energy Act guarantees a feed-in tariff for 20 years and mandates the grid operator to purchase all the
electricity
a wind farm can produce at the guaranteed price.
The UK needs offshore wind to meet its renewable targets, and in a few years it will need
electricity
from any source it can find just to keep the lights turned on.
We are not a ferry, a railroad, a telecommunications network, or an
electricity
grid with only one line serving you and no competitors allowed.
The average US refrigerator uses only one-quarter of the
electricity
of its counterpart of 30 years ago, despite being larger and offering more features.
Natural resources were abundant in the North, and even
electricity
was supplied from North to South.
And, of course, there are more mundane but crucial uses of artificial intelligence everywhere, from managing the electronics and lighting in our homes to populating “smart grids” for water and electricity, helping monitor these and other systems to reduce waste.
The US used to generate about half its
electricity
from coal, and roughly 20% from gas.
But offshore wind power is so expensive that it will receive at least three times the traded cost of regular
electricity
in subsidies – more than even solar power, which was never at an advantage in the UK.
Assuming complete success for the UK’s scheme, offshore wind power could produce more than 10% of the country’s
electricity
in 2020 and reduce its CO2 emissions by up to 22Mt, or 5%, per year.
Natural gas is much more environmentally friendly than coal, which continues to be the mainstay of
electricity
production around the world and in the UK.
In Lithuania, renewables now account for more than half of total
electricity
and heat production.
Finally, the “climate justice” plan sponsored by France and others in Copenhagen, which aims to increase Africans’ access to clean energy, is crucial at a time when three of ten sub-Saharan Africans have no access to
electricity.
Of course, there is some progress – wind power meets 20% of the
electricity
demand in Denmark and about 15% in Spain and Portugal, for example – but the recipe for success remains elusive.
The remaining options are said to fall into three groups: “grand scientific quandaries” (such as uniting gravity and
electricity
into one theory) which require a huge investment and first world infrastructure; “data collection,” which is the field work associated with archeological digs and biological/genetic surveys; and “science-informed problems,” such as combating AIDS or addressing global warming.
That information moves according to the laws of
electricity.
For India, the problem began in the 1970s, when major donors encouraged the government to provide farmers with free
electricity
for irrigation.
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