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This is one of the key reasons why Germans now pay the second-highest price for electricity in the developed world (exceeded only by Denmark, which aims to be the “world wind-energy champion”).
By omitting alcohol, tobacco, petroleum products, and electricity – which together account for more than a quarter of all tax receipts – the government is significantly diluting the GST’s potential impact on the national economy.
In the developing world, a billion people lack access to electricity and roads, and more than a half-billion lack reliable access to safe drinking water.
But the West uses the other 40% of biomass to produce heat, and it will increasingly use it to generate electricity.
This makes sense, because solar and wind power are inherently unreliable – we still need electricity on cloudy days or when the wind dies down.
The key insight is that roughly 75% of our fossil fuel use goes for just a few purposes: to produce electricity and heat at power plants, to drive automobiles, to heat buildings, and to power a few key industries such as refineries, petrochemicals, cement, and steel.
Buildings can reduce their heating needs through improved insulation, or by converting from heating oil to electricity produced by clean technology.
People are used to paying for the electricity that they actually use.
All that is needed are the right financial incentives to induce utility companies to produce less electricity (and still be more profitable) and consumers to reduce their use (and gain savings without sacrificing comfort).
France, for example, will remain dependent on its nuclear-generating capacity, which will continue to account for the largest share of its electricity.
Italy, on the other hand, might wish for a zero-nuclear risk environment, as it does not produce electricity from nuclear power but is surrounded (within about 100 miles) by one Slovene, one Swiss, and six French nuclear-power plants.
Today, just 30% of Africa has access to reliable electricity.
For example, the Senergy 2 solar plant in Senegal sells electricity to the Senegalese power utility at a price that lowers the cost of the energy mix by 50%.
More than 600 million people in Africa have no access to electricity at all.
Yet Western activists seem to believe that the world’s worst-off people should be satisfied with inadequate and irregular electricity supplies.
Although nearly one billion additional people will gain access to electricity by 2040, 530 million will still be cut off.
Chileans today pay the highest electricity rates in the region, because generating capacity has failed to keep pace with rising demand.
China has invested billions of dollars in African oil production, mining, transportation, electricity production and transmission, telecommunications, and other infrastructure.
Likewise, Chinese mastery over ultra-small, cheap “micro-hydro” dams, which can generate tiny amounts of electricity from mere trickles of water, appeals to power-short, river-rich Africans.
BECCS entails planting a huge amount of grass and trees, burning the biomass to generate electricity, capturing the CO2 that is emitted, and pumping it into geological reservoirs underground.
Private electricity producers and one privatized distribution company function as government contractors with a guaranteed margin.
In their view, the years following World War II were an aberration, with industrial countries’ growth helped by post-war reconstruction, rising education levels, higher workforce participation rates (owing to the entry of women), restored global trade, increasing investment, and the diffusion of technologies such as electricity, telephones, and automobiles.
There is no evidence, Levinson concluded, that homes constructed since California instituted its building energy codes use less electricity today than homes built before the codes came into effect.
The idea of a single European air traffic control area was blocked because of a dispute between Britain and Spain over Gibraltar; proposals for liberalisation of gas and electricity supply were resisted by France, which promotes the public service advantages of public sector utilities.
Dam-generated electricity is currently the planet’s largest source of renewable energy, delivering about twice as much power as all other renewables combined.
Last year, she managed to get electricity connected to her shack, and she invested her savings in a refrigerator to store food and drinks for resale.
Even in the remotest villages on the Angolan border, where Ovambo people live in stick huts, electricity is in short supply, and villagers trek miles each day to fetch firewood and water, a bottle of Coke or Fanta is easy to find.
British Petroleum and American Electric Power, the largest electricity supplier in the United States, have helped the Chiquitanos buy up logging concessions, thereby doubling Noel Kempff to three million acres.
The world needs to stop building new coal-fired power plants (except those that implement CCS) and to shift to low-carbon electricity.
It needs to phase out the internal combustion engine for almost all new passenger vehicles by around 2030, shifting to vehicles powered by electricity.
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