Electricity consumption from the manufacture of artificial intelligence (AI) chips has soared by more than 350 percent worldwide between 2023 and 2024, according to new research from Greenpeace East Asia. In East Asia, the global hub for AI semiconductor production, growing electricity demand from AI chipmaking has been met primarily …
Power to the people: The Sri Lankan government has started working on a five-year national plan on power and energy development to provide quality service at cheaper rates and to solve the country's power crisis. Under the plan, construction of the first natural gas-fired power plant with a 300 MW-capacity …
new South Wales (nsw) premier Morris Iemma, South Australian premier Mike Rann and Victorian environment minister John Thwaites have recently issued a paper that suggests a possible design for a national emission trading scheme that will cut Australia's greenhouse emissions by 60 per cent over the next 50 years. But …
The increasing popularity of on-site power generation is driving the demand for methods to compensate customer-generators that supply electricity to the grid. Although many practices exist for providing such compensation, confusion surrounds the terms often used to describe such practices (notably, net metering and net billing). To help clarify this …
India faces formidable challenges in meeting its energy needs and in providing adequate energy of desired quality in various forms in a sustainable manner and at competitive prices. This Expert Committee report provides a broad overarching framework for guiding the policies governing the production and use of different forms of …
the Indian power sector's high dependence on subsidies from state governments, especially in Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab and Maharashtra, hinders its efficiency, says a recent Union power ministry report. Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited, a policy advisory company and icra Limited, an investment information and credit rating service, jointly …
This article analyzes the challenges to effective environmental protection in the power sectors of China and India. Its analytical framework consists of identification of environmental policies and regulations affecting electricity generation, assessment of problems faced when implementing these policies and regulations, and finally recommendations for surmounting the barriers encountered.
The French government's plan to build a new nuclear reactor near the port of Cherbourg in Normandy province has sparked large-scale protests in the country. Between 12,500 to 30,000 anti-nuclear people took to the streets to protest against Electricit
The Indo- us nuclear deal raises two critical questions. Do we need a large-scale expansion of nuclear power? Do we need to expand our arsenal of weapons of mass destruction? The answer to both is no. Any evaluation of the potential role of nuclear power should begin with the history …
To address the problem of power shortage in the coming summer, the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (merc) has decided to penalise power intensive consumers. merc has directed all residential and commercial consumers consuming more than 300 units per month and all industrial consumers (irrespective of their level of consumption) within …
California electricity consumers are in for a shock and a surprise. Two of the state's biggest utility providers plan on spending $2 billion to install millions of meters, which will display real-time information on how much electricity a customer consumes when using different gadgets. The data in turn will be …
Power is the key to the economic growth of Uttaranchal. Realising this, the government has framed a power policy that aims to exploit the State's immense hydro-electric potential. The State has the potential to produce 25,000 MW of power and has already identified projects to generate 20,000 MW. While projects …
Transmission services have to be provided as a separate item in a deregulated or vertically restructured electricity supply industry. Methods for transmission line fixed-cost allocation among the transmission transactions accounting for line capacity use are presented. Cost allocation to each transaction will be according to the capacity use patterns throughout …
Bustling markets, multi-storey houses, schools, and places of worship: Yazali in Arunachal Pradesh's Lower Subansiri district is a busy village town with a population of around 4,000
In this day of television grabs, policies are about slugfests. The logic of the grab is that any discussion must be heated, with sharply divided positions - clear proponents and opponents. It is a caricature of the world; in it, for instance, if one is an environmentalist then s/he must …
smelling cancer: Research conducted in the US presents astonishing evidence that man's best friend, the dog, may help in early detection of cancer. Led by Michael McCulloch of the Pine Street Foundation in California, and Tadeusz Jezierski of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Genetics and Animal Breeding, the …
Energy cooperation in South Asia presents tremendous potential for the development of regional resources in an integrated manner by exploiting the complementarities and optimal utilisation of available resources. Much will depend on how South Asia benefits from its proximity to south western and central Asia to meet its gas and …
The uk government has a tough choice. In the next decade-and-a half decade, almost all of the country's 14 nuclear stations will have outlived their utility. Not a very welcome proposition in a country where nuclear power generates about 22 per cent of the electricity, annually. Moreover, the share of …
The privatisation of Thailand's Electricity Generating Authority (egat) has been a bone of contention for the Thai government. Recently, the Supreme Administrative Court (sac) of Thailand ordered a temporary halt to egat's initial public offer (ipo) while deliberating a suit filed by a federation of consumers. The suit called for …
