Energy Update
The first time I watched William Kamkwamba’s entertaining and motivating TED talk from 2007, I found myself moved to tears. At the age of 14, Kamkwamba, an inventor from Malawi, built a wind turbine for his family’s farm based on plans from a book in the library.
AMSTERDAM, Jan 5 (Reuters) - A Dutch court on Thursday
upheld a government decision to cap production at the offshore
Groningen gas field, a step aimed at easing the risk of
earthquakes triggered by drawing gas from Europe's biggest
field.
On Dec. 29, the Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) announced it is moving forward with a modernization project at the 1,000-MW Mangla hydroelectric project to increase the facility’s generating output by 310 MW at an estimated cost of Rs 52.224 billion (US$769 million).
In another shining example of renewable energy leadership, in 2016, Germany used more renewable electricity than ever before, receiving 32 percent of the gross amount of electricity consumed in the country from sun, wind and other renewable sources.
LAMU, Kenya, Jan 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Walid
Amed Ali stands beside the only window in his tiny office, he
looks out on an almost perfect world on the Kenyan island of
Lamu where his family has lived for generations.
LONDON, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Sucessive annual cuts in mining
exploration bugets are expected to add impetus to a metal price
revival in the coming years, as a lack of investment exacerbates
deteriorating ore quality for key metals such as copper, zinc
and nickel.
Lobbying and legal challenges are important components of any successful strategy to maintain the pace of the transition to a low-carbon economy; however, what will ultimately win the day is engaging the public—defenders and deniers-- in a rational and resonating dialogue.
YENAGOA, Nigeria, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Nigeria has resumed
payments of cash stipends to former militants agreed under a
2009 amnesty in the country's Niger Delta oil hub, a government
official said on Thursday.
Residential solar installations in New York increased 12 percent in 2016 to 19,945, which is a significant slowdown from 100 percent growth in 2015.
AMSTERDAM, Jan 5 (Reuters) - A Dutch court on Thursday
upheld a decision by the government to cap production at the
Groningen gas field at 24 billion cubic metres (bcm) until Oct.
1, 2021.
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