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Agency for promoting Clean Energy launched

Call for producing cheap electricity from thorium deposits

The Hindu

What is curtailment? An electricity market expert explains

Curtailment has a special meaning in electric power systems. It describes any action that reduces the amount of electricity generated to maintain the balance between supply and demand – which is critical for avoiding blackouts.

The Conversation

Woman fears massive bill after paying £1 for electricity for 2 years

A WOMAN living in a high rise flat fears she'll be hit with a massive bill after being wrongly told to pay only £1 for her heating and electricity…

The National (Scotland)

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Letting agents doused tenant in petrol and beat him in eviction conspiracy, court told

Victims saw locks changed, electricity sabotaged and toilets damaged over 14-year period, prosecutors say

The Independent UK

India needs $223 billion to meet 2030 renewable capacity goals: Report

Government has a target of increasing non-fossil power capacity to 500 GW by 2030 and provide half of its electricity supply

The Hindu

Sri Lanka PM says economy 'has collapsed,' unable to buy oil

Sri Lanka’s prime minister says its debt-laden economy has “collapsed" after months of shortages of food, fuel and electricity

The Independent UK

China heatwaves drive up power demand to record levels, southern floods swamp cities

Heatwaves in northern and central China drove up electricity demand to record levels as millions switched on air conditioners to escape the sweltering conditions, while floodwaters in the south submerged villages and trapped city residents.

Reuters

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Hong Kong fire leaves 20,000 households without power for 2 days

A fire in global financial hub Hong Kong has left 20,000 households without electricity for two days amid hot and humid weather.The city's government is requesting an investigation into the accident, which occured on Tuesday.

Reuters

Payouts on big US power grid fall 32% in blow to coal plants

Electricity generators on the biggest U.S. grid will be paid 32% less next year for being on standby to keep power flowing on the system stretching from New Jersey to Illinois.

Tribune News Service

Australian Energy Market Operator to end its intervention in east coast market

An unprecedented intervention in Australia's east coast energy market will be gradually removed over the next day, with authorities increasingly confident in the supply of wholesale electricity.

ABC News

It's Time To Recycle Now Or Face Breadlines For Copper

By Christopher Guérin, Chief Executive Officer of Nexans

Benzinga

The national electricity market is a failed 1990s experiment. It's time the grid returned to public hands

A crisis, as the saying has it, combines danger and opportunity. The dangers of the current electricity crisis are obvious. The opportunity it presents is to end to the failed experiment of the national electricity market.

The Conversation

No guarantee Tasmanian households won't be hardest hit by Marinus Link bill

It was the hot topic of letters between former PM Scott Morrison and the Tasmanian government — and it appears there's still no guarantee Australia's poorest state won't pay half the cost of a massive new power project but reap only a fraction of the benefits.

ABC News

Still no rub of the green for Newcastle's red and blue

Email letters@newcastleherald.com.au or send a text message to 0427 154 176 (include name and suburb).

Newcastle Herald

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Reuters

Sudan's economy sinks as post-coup leadership searches for support

An accelerated breakdown in services including water and electricity supplies has left Sudanese citizens counting the cost of political stalemate after a military takeover last October.

The Independent UK

Lebanon, Syria and Egypt sign deal to supply Beirut with gas

Lebanon, Egypt and Syria have signed an agreement to import Egyptian gas to a power plant in northern Lebanon through Syria

Tribune News Service

Motormouth: Clunk costs a chunk of change

Q: My 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee suddenly developed a clunk downshifting at a stop sign. Then, at the next stop sign, even my wife heard it. Took it to my local garage here, who I have great trust in, as they have saved me a lot of money. They used…

Asharq Al-Awsat

For Iraqis a Sweltering Summer Has Begun

Umm Mohammed, 74, waves a fan back and forth to cool down, but in the blistering heat of Iraq's southern city of Basra there is nothing but stiflingly hot air. While Basra is used to scorching summers, this year it has started sooner than expected, bringing misery to residents in…

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Green energy electricity retailer Enova enters voluntary administration

The company says the "diabolical" energy crisis affecting Australia's east coast had an "unbearable" effect on its ability to operate.

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: What's next after Russia reduced gas to Europe?

The war in Ukraine is fueling fears of a natural gas emergency in Europe

AAP

Qld electricity prices won't fund budget

Queensland Treasurer Cameron Dick says public electricity generators will use profits they've earned on the wholesale market to transition to renewable energy.

Newcastle Herald

Australian consumer and energy watchdogs to probe alleged energy market gaming

Findings to be disclosed at national energy ministers meeting in July

The Conversation

Why including coal in a new ‘capacity mechanism’ will make Australia's energy crisis worse

Australia’s electricity generators would be paid extra money to be available even if they don’t actually generate any energy, under a new mechanism proposed by the federal government’s Energy Security Board (ESB).

The Times of India

Couple electrocuted to death in Baran dist

KOTA: A 55-year-old man and his 50-year-old wife were allegedly electrocuted to death at their house in Tejaji Ka Ganda village under Bhanwargarh police station area of Baran district on Sunday night. Their bodies were recovered from yard of their house in an agriculture field near a wire meant for…

ABC News

Gas export tax would help to fix Australia's energy crisis, says Dr Ken Henry

Australia has blown its chance to use its vast gas fields to help the economy transition to renewable energy, says former Treasury secretary Ken Henry.

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