Energy Update
This year, the sun’s rays can benefit more than your mood and man tan. Solar power is great for the environment, is cost effective, and can enhance your fun for you and your family during the sunniest time of the year.
Can America’s power grid accommodate a more dominant role for renewables in the energy mix? As the grid stands today, the answer is no. Our society is putting increasing demands on electric infrastructure that wasn’t designed for today needs — much less what we’re asking of it to support a cleaner energy future.
TAKORADI, Ghana, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Ghana began pumping
crude from a second offshore field operated by British company
Tullow Oil on Thursday, hoping the additional revenue
will boost its flagging economy.
LAGOS, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Nigerian oil minister Emmanuel Ibe
Kachikwu said on Thursday that while a cut in OPEC production is
unlikely, there is hope a meeting of producers in Algeria next
month could help shore up crude prices.
BEIJING, Aug 18 (Reuters) - The increase in people dying in
India from air pollution will outpace the rate of such deaths in
China, as India drags its heels over environmental rules while
opening more coal mines, the head of a U.S. research group said
on Thursday.
LAUNCESTON, Australia, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Asking whether the
world's major crude oil-exporting countries can reach a deal to
limit output is probably the wrong question. Asking whether it
matters if they do is more relevant.
FRANKFURT, Aug 18 (Reuters) - European spot power prices
eased on Thursday on weaker pre-weekend demand and improved
thermal plant availability, outweighing the impact of reduced
renewables output.
BEIJING, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi
told China's premier on Thursday that her new government is
willing to look for a resolution that suits both countries to a
suspended Chinese-funded hydropower project in northern Myanmar,
a senior Chinese diplomat said.
* Large plant costs led developers to look at smaller
versions
* First deployment in UK possible by late 2020s
* Critics say no guarantee SMRs will be cheaper, viable
* Graphic -UK nuclear sites - http://tmsnrt.rs/2b4T144
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