Sentences with phrase «electricity shortage in»

Brazil, hit by a nationwide electricity shortage in 2000 — 02, responded with an ambitious program to replace incandescents with CFLs.

Meanwhile, the shutdowns of the Fukushima Daiichi reactor complex and other nuclear plants after the earthquake have led to electricity shortages in Tokyo and neighbouring prefectures, where temporary outages are planned every day.

«From 2001 to 2008, a series of droughts caused electricity shortages in the American southeast, the Pacific northwest, and continental Europe.

Not exact matches

The shortage of electricity in areas where data centres are concentrated is threatening the industry's expansion in the Netherlands, the Dutch Data...

Let's think worst case — should the currency collapse in your home country... and should a bank run ensue... and should the government mandate that all banks then close for no less than a week... and should subsequent food shortages take place... and should no clean water be available... and should the electricity and heat not work... and should violent protests, riots, and widespread looting erupt...

«There has been political turmoil for the past one - and - a-half years that has resulted in electricity supply shortage, resulting in an increase in fuel prices,» Joy Singhal, Oxfam's deputy director in Yemen, said on Wednesday.

Periodic shortages of electricity and city water can occur, especially in the dry season from November to March.

Prosecutors accused Reliant of conspiring to create a phony energy shortage in 2000 to illegally drive up electricity prices there.

Shortages of electricity have led to dumsor, [128] increasing the interest in renewables.

«Water shortages from lack of electricity are common in today's conflicts,» says the ICRC.

Electricity generation and distribution infrastructure in the Western United States must be «climate - proofed» to diminish the risk of future power shortages, according to research by two Arizona State University engineers.

Government accused of ignoring increasingly severe water crisis as it gives green light to more coal plants in bid to tackle electricity shortages

Of course, in modern times, with no shortage of electricity to light the post-sunset (and pre-dawn) hours, we are less limited by the sun than our ancestors might have been.

It has also a generator in case of shortage of electricity.

and you are in a very dry, remote corner of Africa, so you might have water shortages or electricity outages and maintenance might take time due to parts issues, so the best way to have a great experience is to adjust your expectations, relax and focus what you came for: The amazing wildlife!

China had seen slowdowns in the growth in electricity supplies recently, often because of shortages of coal or the ability to get the fuel where it was needed.

«Given India's burgeoning electricity demand and the persistent supply demand gap along with the summer shortages and outages, solar PV prosumers will have a crucial role in enabling the country's transition to a fully sustainable energy system,» says Christian Breyer, professor of solar economy at LUT and one of the researchers.

While there will likely be no shortage of sunlight to harvest for electricity, living inside metal boxes in the desert might prove uncomfortably hot.

Without the recent extensions, the electricity market would have faced a severe shortage of supply that would have been «nothing short of catastrophic» and resulted in more coal - or gas - fired power plants being built and increased greenhouse gas emissions, Was said.

Even in the UK, which has one of the best renewable energy sources in the world, interconnecting wind, sun, wave and tidal power would still generate electricity shortages for 18 % of the time (roughly 65 days per year).

Oil — > Transport, Electricity — > 1) C02 and 10x stronger or so CH4 in air — > Global Warming — > Draughts, Hurricanes, Floods — > Lost crops, forests, homes — > CO2 fixing potential lost, Starvation, Diseases, More ressources / energy needed 2) C02 and 10x stronger or so CH4 in air — > Global Warming — > Ice caps and glaciers metling — > Earth natural climate stabilizers lost + massive CH4 release from pergelisoils & ancient ice melt 3) CO2 in water — > Oceans acidification — > Destruction of centennial / millenial coral reefs — > Loss of oceans» filters / pulmons / incubators / biodiversity reservoir — > Food shortage

One such period of shortage was in the second half of January when most of the electricity was produced by conventional power sources — lignite, coal, natural gas, and nuclear.

The shortage has been caused by the increase in the level of demand for energy combined with a growing tendency to build wind turbines, at the expense of other, more reliable, electricity sources.

SHANGHAI, China (AP)-- China plans to construct its first offshore wind power complex next year in hopes of easing chronic electricity shortages, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Monday.

Endowed with vast reserves in the Thar lignite field and facing a severe energy shortage, Pakistan is betting on domestic and imported coal for electricity supply in the coming years.

Picker's office released a report Thursday explaining how they can properly reform the electricity market and avoid an energy shortage similar to the one California experienced in 2000 and 2001.

National Grid has warned that there has been a significant increase in the risk of electricity shortages and brownouts this winter after fires and faults knocked out a large chunk of Britain's shrinking power station coverage.

To avert power shortages, Germany currently has to import large amounts of electricity generated at nuclear power plants in France and the Czech Republic.

These include bankruptcy of non-competitive non-hydro «renewable» power companies (as in Spain), soaring electricity prices (as in Western European countries such as Germany, Denmark, and Great Britain), electricity shortages (as in Great Britain and Germany when the wind does not blow and the sun is not shining), and the departure or decline of energy intensive industries.

You might like to ponder what has changed since I wrote a letter on 16 Feb 1979 quoting the Chairman of the U.K. Central Electricity Generating Board, Mr R England, who wrote ``... the only proven way in which the predicted shortage of fossil fuels can be counterbalanced in the field of electricity generation is by increasing out investment in nuclear power... In view of the drawbacks involved, the CEGB is not carrying out any work of its own on harnessing solar energy... it is too early to say whether geothermal energy is feasible, or what the likely cost would bElectricity Generating Board, Mr R England, who wrote ``... the only proven way in which the predicted shortage of fossil fuels can be counterbalanced in the field of electricity generation is by increasing out investment in nuclear power... In view of the drawbacks involved, the CEGB is not carrying out any work of its own on harnessing solar energy... it is too early to say whether geothermal energy is feasible, or what the likely cost would be...&raquin which the predicted shortage of fossil fuels can be counterbalanced in the field of electricity generation is by increasing out investment in nuclear power... In view of the drawbacks involved, the CEGB is not carrying out any work of its own on harnessing solar energy... it is too early to say whether geothermal energy is feasible, or what the likely cost would be...&raquin the field of electricity generation is by increasing out investment in nuclear power... In view of the drawbacks involved, the CEGB is not carrying out any work of its own on harnessing solar energy... it is too early to say whether geothermal energy is feasible, or what the likely cost would belectricity generation is by increasing out investment in nuclear power... In view of the drawbacks involved, the CEGB is not carrying out any work of its own on harnessing solar energy... it is too early to say whether geothermal energy is feasible, or what the likely cost would be...&raquin nuclear power... In view of the drawbacks involved, the CEGB is not carrying out any work of its own on harnessing solar energy... it is too early to say whether geothermal energy is feasible, or what the likely cost would be...&raquIn view of the drawbacks involved, the CEGB is not carrying out any work of its own on harnessing solar energy... it is too early to say whether geothermal energy is feasible, or what the likely cost would be...»

In Denmark, where wind energy reportedly accounts for just 7 % of electricity, there is already a shortage of suitable land - based wind energy sites.

The revolutions recently and on - going in the ME have food pricing as a stronger driver than any political ideology, e.g. Keep your eye on China; its power and food shortages are spiking; the gubmint has even resorted to actually increasing electricity prices, much to its own chagrin and the distress of the public.

Two stories offering a glimpse at the future in China, and likely elsewhere too: Diesel fuel shortages hit as the government rations electricity to factories and generators attempt to take up the slack; as the same time

«10 % of all vehicles in the transport fleet to be powered by electricity» These days, there's certainly no shortage of ambitious goals, especially in Europe.

«The solar industry is poised for a rapid decline in costs that will make it a mainstream power option in the next few years, according to a new assessment by the Worldwatch Institute in Washington, D.C., and the Prometheus Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Global production of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells, which turn sunlight directly into electricity, has risen sixfold since 2000 and grew 41 percent in 2006 alone... This growth, while dramatic, has been constrained by a shortage of manufacturing capacity for purified polysilicon, the same material that goes into semiconductor chips.

Had California in pace a bidding protocol that could deal with temporary electricity shortages, ratepayers could have saved perhaps $ 20billion.