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Whereas wind power, on average, supplies 5% of the UK’s electricity, its share fell to just 0.04% that day.
Of course, these figures include reductions in areas other than electricity, as well as higher energy prices’ total cost to the economy.
Nabulsi, who worked for charities in Upper Egypt that raised money to provide running water and electricity to poor households, wrote about how Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point and Jim Collins’s Good to Great affected his thinking about social change.
For example, we will completely liberalize Japan’s electricity market.
By the time the Olympians arrive in six years, the power sector will be fully competitive, with electricity generation separated from distribution.
Experts on economic development in Africa naturally concentrate on basic technologies: clean water, energy for cooking, electricity, and improved roads.
With hundreds of millions of children around the world not in school, or in schools with under-qualified teachers, a lack of computers, large class sizes, and no electricity, many parts of the world are headed for massive instability, joblessness, and poverty.
Impressive progress is already being made in one crucial area: electricity generation.
That investment needs to be matched by accelerated progress in battery technology, or by other tools to match electricity demand to intermittent supply.
But there is no doubt that, by mid-century, the world can build a cost-effective zero-carbon electricity system.
And yet zero-carbon power, though hugely important, is insufficient, because electricity currently accounts for only 20% of global energy consumption.
Here, the more widespread use of zero-carbon electricity, instead of fossil-fuel-based energy, could have a major impact.
Given these challenges, fossil fuels will undoubtedly play a role in transport and heavy industry for some time to come, even as their role in electricity generation declines.
And, even in electricity generation, emerging economies’ INDCs imply significant new investments in coal or gas capacity.
Taken together, the INDCs suggest that coal could still account for 35% of global electricity generation in 2030.
For example, in the energy sector, independent power producers are working with governments to provide electricity to 620 million Africans living off the grid.
Privately funded but government regulated, these producers operate through power purchase agreements, whereby public utilities and regulators agree to purchase electricity at a predetermined price.
Two examples suffice to illustrate the impact: the price of rice has tripled while consumption of electricity is down by two-thirds from two decades ago.
Not so in much of Africa, which experiences some of the world’s greatest power deficits, and where only two in ten people have access to electricity.
According to the International Monetary Fund’s most recent Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa, in 2007 alone, nearly two-thirds of the countries in the region experienced an acute energy crisis marked by frequent and extended electricity outages.
There is no shortage of hydropower plants for electricity generation in Africa.
Other resources like fuel oil, diesel, light crude, solar, and gas are also available as means of electricity generation, but their costs are all quite prohibitive.
Much of the future increases in coal-fired electricity generation will come from strategically important developing countries like China and India.
In 2006 alone, China added about 93,000 megawatts of coal- fired electricity generating capacity, and this trend is expected to continue as the country tries to meet its huge energy needs.
Coal plants currently provide more than half of America’s electricity supply.
Denmark, which houses some of the most efficient coal-fired power plants in the world, equally relies on coal for half of its electricity production.
Poland uses coal for 98% of its electricity production, and South Africa uses coal for about 50% of its electricity production.
It would seek to reduce the cost of electricity from sources that do not emit greenhouse gases below that of coal power by 2025.
But there are significant obstacles to the widespread use of solar energy and other sources of renewable electricity, including a desperate need for cheaper, more efficient means of energy storage and transmission.
Indians braved the 3,000-meter heights to run a power-transmission line from Pul-e-Khumri to Kabul – giving round-the-clock electricity to the capital for the first time since 1982.
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