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The scale of the challenge for the African energy sector is well known. The World Bank estimates that in rural areas around one in three Africans have no access to [...]

Limbo and crisis are the most oft refrains used to describe mining in India these days. It's especially ironic for the mining sector, which boasts the fifth largest reserves in [...]

Weak electricity demand in China and India is clouding the outlook for coal THE Hazelwood power station in Australia's state of Victoria started generating electricity 52 years ago. The stark [...]

IN THE LITTLE town of Doswell, Virginia, a futuristic power plant recently went into operation. Driven by natural gas, the facility uses less fuel than comparable stations, thanks to an [...]

Byline: Hasnain Nangyal, Nighat Ziaudin and Upvan Bhushan : THE TERM renewable is applied for that resource which is naturally occurring and renewed after a short period of time. Renewable [...]

Byline: Alexey A. Pravkov, MRSK-Urals JCS To meet an already large and rapidly growing electricity demand in one of Russia's most important industrial centers, the primary power provider of the [...]

Byline: Joseph MacEnri, Abdul Aziz Al Sinani, Hussain Al Lawati and Rasheed Al Balushi, Muscat Electricit The Muscat Electricity Distribution Co. (MEDC) distribution network is supplied by the Oman Electricity [...]

Byline: Brett Feldman, Navigant Research In the last several years, deployments of demand response (DR) in the U.S. electricity market have matured and now have the opportunity to bid directly [...]

A new report from Navigant Research examines the global DR market with a focus on two key sectors: commercial/industrial and residential. Efforts to limit power generation by utilities and reduce [...]

Byline: Mike Heyeck, The Grid Group, LLC What will the electric grid be like in 2050? Will central station power plants dominate? Will distributed energy resources penetrate? Will transmission be [...]

One of the most dramatic changes seen on planet Earth in the past few decades is the explosive growth of the human population. From 1950 to 2010 the population increased [...]

Martin QuinlanLONDONA UK government report says independence for Scotland ââ¬â on which the Scottish will vote in September - will raise gas and electricity bills for Scottish households and industry. [...]

With the global population growing and reliance on technology continuing to expand at a rapid pace, world electricity demand is projected to increase by more than 2 percent per year [...]

Byline: STAFF REPORT Karachi -- Since Pakistan is facing an acute energy crisis for the last couple of years, the incumbent government is taking various initiatives in order to fast-track [...]

Byline: Paul Mauldin When I first went to work in our industry, annual electric load growth was around eight percent. We were always building something - generation and transmission mostly [...]

Despite the government's requests, there is no indication that the IMF will renew the country's extended credit facility (ECF), which expired in mid-2012. The Fund criticised Djibouti's weak programme performance, [...]

Few factors put as big a brake on growth and development in Africa than its underdeveloped power sector. Across the continent, chronic power shortages have been the norm for decades. [...]

The Crisis 2030: The United Nations Energy For All Initiative has set an ambitious target of 2030 for universal access to electricity. On current trends, Africa will struggle to meet [...]

The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) is projecting that sustained high temperatures forecasted for this week could push the demand for electricity in New York state to near-record levels. [...]

'With its abundance of clear skies and sun, and its limited electricity infrastructure, it is little wonder that Kenya is emerging as a big market for alternative sources of power [...]

by Janet Wood Power companies fear the UK could run short of backup and peaking power capacity because the market does not provide enough incentives to invest. Giving evidence to [...]

Perhaps the biggest obstacle to Africa's growth revolves around providing energy to the continent's often widely dispersed populations. One of the issues is finding a method of allowing poor people [...]

Byline: ISO New England The Board of Directors of ISO New England Inc. hasapproved the 2007 Regional System Plan (RSP07). This year's comprehensive assessment shows marked progress in a number [...]

The dominance of hydroelectric generation in New Zealand (around two-thirds of electricity supply comes from hydroelectric sources) periodically raises the risk of electricity shortages as a result of drought. In [...]

Byline: Dominion Consumers will increase their peak demand for electricity by 16.7 percent over the next 10 years, according to PJM Interconnection, the electric power supply system operator for 13 [...]

Households consume far more energy than industry Households account for more than 80% of total energy demand, which is met mainly by fuelwood and other biomass sources. In 1993 the [...]

The electricity system is not reliable The electricity system is operated by the government-owned PNG Power (formerly the Electricity Commission, Elcom). The distribution system is restricted to the major cities, [...]

Pressure to reverse Ukraine is already a significant transit country for Russian oil exports to Western Europe. It hopes to become a major player in the transportation of Caspian oil [...]

Most electricity is purchased from South Africa, the remainder being generated at hydroelectric stations. A new transmission line from South Africa through Swaziland to Maputo came into operation in 2000; [...]

Zimbabwe's manufacturing sector is in a dire state due to poor infrastructure as well as shortages of capital, electricity and water. Capacity utilisation plunged to 39.6% from 44% recorded last [...]

Kenya has a fairly well-established power generation network consisting of hydroelectric and geothermal power. Wood fuel provides more than 70% of Kenya's total domestic energy demands and provides more than [...]

Like Brazil and Argentina, covered in the past two articles, South Africa is another country which had an early start in nuclear, but has so far not progressed beyond two [...]

Africa needs $288bn to transform its energy outlook and reach the goal of universal access to electricity by 2030. But what's deterring investors? Deloitte's report Addressing Africa's infrastructure challenges suggests [...]

As with other capital intensive items with substantial lead generation times, generation resource supply relative to demand is cyclical. Many regions within the U.S. are currently experiencing excess capacity due [...]

New Hampshire, like several other New England states, is suffering from an energy shortage, both of electricity and natural gas. These shortages are raising the unit cost of each energy [...]

South Africa: South Africa needs 40 GW of new kpower generation by 2025, about half of which should be nuclear energy, says state utility Eskom. Eskom supplies about 95% of [...]

Growing demand for power has resulted in a 12% increase year-on-year in coal imports by generation companies in May as the scorching weather drove customers to crank up fans or [...]

Jordanian officials, concerned that the country cannot meet future increases in demand, are telling the world that the country's energy sector urgently needs investment, The Jordan Times has reported. The [...]

Indiana has enough pig manure, garbage and other biological waste to supply electricity to a third of the state's households, according to a Purdue University study released this fall. However, [...]