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France is blocking the acquisition of French utilities by the Italian electricity company Enel.
But West Europeans remember their own traumas, including electricity grid failures and widespread blackouts.
Power to the PeopleMEXICO CITY – If you are reading this article, you most likely have electricity and heat at home and never think of that fact as at all remarkable.
The International Energy Agency estimates that, over the next two decades, ensuring universal access to electricity would require around 10% of total annual investment in the energy sector, which can be mobilized by the private sector.
In some EU states, electricity prices for industrial customers are twice what their North American counterparts pay.
Uruguay, for example, announced a strategy to generate half its electricity from renewable sources by 2015.
Even more politically difficult would be the elimination of electricity and gas subsidies, which encourage farmers to pump groundwater all day.
Power to the PoorestBREMEN – An estimated 1.2 billion people worldwide, including 550 million in Africa and 400 million in India, have no access to electricity.
A stable supply of affordable electricity is a prerequisite for economic development.
In fact, the consequences for people living without electricity can be dire: they may be deprived of adequate health care, or be unable to store fresh food.
The additional revenue might initially come from selling small electricity surpluses to local farmers to recharge their mobile phones (thereby allowing them to work out the optimal prices for their crops), or to help them irrigate farmland using small electric pumps.
The combination of low-investment electricity generation for households and the ability to sell surpluses, scale up output, and access pre-existing distribution and maintenance networks bridges a crucial gap in the energy market.
The Millennium Villages Project, which I have the honor of helping to lead, has demonstrated that pastoralist communities can be empowered through targeted investments in livestock management, veterinary care, business development, mobile health clinics, boarding schools, and local infrastructure such as safe water points, off-grid electricity, and mobile telephony.
Today, 1.6 billion people do not have electricity; when the sun sets, their lives are literally beset by darkness.
The Renewable Energy Sources Act, for instance, introduced in 2000 by a Social Democrat-Green government, has enabled the country to exceed all growth expectations in the alternative-energy sector, which now accounts for 20% of Germany’s total electricity consumption.
Delivering that certainty will not be easy, because much of the primary deficit reflects remaining energy subsidies to households and firms; increasing these so-called administered prices (of electricity and natural gas, among others) causes a one-off jump in the relevant price indices, and a temporary spike in inflation.
Global renewables-based electricity generation (mainly hydro and wind, but also solar and biomass) is set to double between 2006 and 2030.
Alternative energy sources such as solar and wind create significantly more expensive fuel and electricity than traditional energy sources.
Increasing the cost of electricity and fuel will hurt productivity, reduce overall employment, and cut the amount of disposable income that people have.
But, because these policies increase the cost of fuel and electricity, they imply layoffs elsewhere, across many different economic sectors.
Estimates of how much electricity Bitcoin mining requires vary widely – some put it as high as 30 terawatt hours per year (equivalent to Morocco’s entire electricity demand), while others suggest it’s a sixth of that.
The chemical industry consumes more energy than all private transportation, and aluminum production rivals the commercial sector in terms of electricity demand.
US oil demand has fallen 8% as consumers tighten their belts, and electricity demand in China is down by 10% as energy-intensive industries cut production.
Future US consumption will be greener, and the cost of climate policy reduced, if the US recovery package includes money to weatherize homes, upgrade the electricity grid, and help the auto industry improve fuel efficiency.
There is no way, for example, to continue expanding the global use of energy safely unless we drastically alter how we produce electricity, power automobiles, and heat and cool our buildings.
If, as occurred after the last elections, months go by without the formation of a government, this will be confirmation that Iraq’s political elites will continue to subordinate the desperate needs of the country – for security, electricity, water, and basic services – to their political futures as they haggle over positions.
In the 1860’s, James Clerk Maxwell assembled the equations for electricity and magnetism, as they were then known, and discovered an inconsistency.
The augmented equations, today known as the Maxwell equations, described a unified theory of electricity and magnetism.
This jumble recalls the piecemeal equations of electricity and magnetism before Maxwell.
For example, whereas France derives the majority of its electricity from nuclear energy, Germany rushed to close all of its nuclear power plants after the 2011 meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima plant.
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