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In canceling a $3.6 billion Myitsone hydro-electric project (90% of whose electricity would have been exported to China), the Burmese government surprised most observers, even though Chinese analysts were quick to express understanding of the government’s desire not to be seen as wholly subservient to a much more powerful neighbor.
Social inequalities heightened, and last year Brazil suffered blackouts and electricity rationing.
On the other hand, they are in desperate need of energy, with some 1.3 billion people around the world – and two out of three Africans – currently lacking access to electricity.
Providing more people with access to electricity would have necessitated emitting more greenhouse gases, aggravating the consequences of climate change.
The costs of off-grid electricity are also falling, providing exciting new opportunities to provide affordable and reliable power to rural communities.
At the current rate of change, the total share of global electricity production from renewable sources will reach just 20% by 2030.
Steps should include the elimination of fossil-fuel subsidies, setting a price for CO2 emissions, and improving the governance of electricity markets.
Affordable solutions to both problems are within reach, and much of the world – particularly Africa – has a unique opportunity to leapfrog to the next generation of electricity generation.
The international auctioning of emissions allowances and allowances in domestic emissions-trading schemes, a carbon tax, revenues from international transport, a surcharge on electricity transmission, and financial transaction taxes could generate as much as $220 billion per year in additional revenues.
"In 15 years, we got 200 million people out of poverty; 700 million Chinese today have access to electricity, an unknown luxury 15 years ago.
That is why we need to invest now in other technologies that can complement renewables, and provide reliable electricity for many centuries to come.
Of course, holding the sun in a bottle is no small challenge, especially when one considers that the systems must be engineered so that they can create electricity for a price consumers are willing to pay.
Already, in Gilani’s hometown of Multan, rioters attacked government offices and banks to protest electricity disruptions.
Beyond personnel, remote health facilities in Indonesia lack adequate supporting infrastructure: clean water, sanitation, reliable electricity, and basic medicine and equipment.
Paradoxically, then, the very conditions that made it impossible for the nuclear industry to deliver full power in Europe in 2003 and 2006 created peak demand for electricity, owing to the increased use of air conditioning.
France likes to showcase its nuclear power industry, which supplies 78% of the country’s electricity.
Energy reform opens up electricity generation and oil exploration, extraction, and refining to private foreign or domestic investment through licenses, concessions, production sharing, or profit sharing.
Once the myriad legal and political obstacles are cleared, Mexico will be able to increase oil and gas production, drive down the price of electricity, and stimulate growth in an otherwise lethargic economy.
In a liberalization package just released, the government partially redresses its early mistakes in privatization by clawing back power from the incumbent near monopolies in oil, gas, electricity, and telecoms.
Policy discussions at many high-level summits sought to strengthen other features of industrial policy, including public financing of airports, highways, ports, electricity grids, telecommunications, and other infrastructure, improvements in institutional effectiveness, an emphasis on education and skills, and a clearer legal framework.
Moreover, multilateral organizations and former ministers from around the world are flocking to help the authorities make progress on their ambitious agenda, from expanding electricity provision to building their own governing capacity.
The plant’s operators temporarily halted electricity generation to curb the risk of a radiation release, but nothing came of the threat.
It limits how much of these types of renewable power can usefully be fed into the world’s electricity grids.
The base-load power, too, is predominantly based on fossil fuels, with around 39% of global electricity generation sourced from burning coal.
This “conventional” geothermal energy has been used to generate reliable base-load electricity for more than 100 years, and is now used in many countries including Italy, Iceland, Japan, New Zealand, and the western United States.
But it is the economics of HDR geothermal that will eventually determine its long-term role, because deep boreholes are expensive to drill, and their costs must be met before power stations can begin to generate electricity.
The infrastructure requirements alone in emerging-market economies and low-income countries are huge – 1.4 billion people still have no reliable electricity, 900 million lack access to clean water, and 2.6 billion do not have adequate sanitation.
It also has the distinct disadvantage of not working at night, when much electricity is consumed.
On short, overcast winter days, Germany’s 1.1 million solar-power systems can generate no electricity at all.
The country is then forced to import considerable amounts of electricity from nuclear power plants in France and the Czech Republic.
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