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Shift from diesel to renewables can save electric coops P1.4-1.7 billion over next decade
3 December 2020 (IEEFA Philippines): The record-breaking disasters in the Philippines this year highlight the potential for renewable energy to power small island and isolated power grids and save the country up to P13.5 billion per year, and electric cooperatives an additional P1.4 to P1.7 billion over the next decade, finds a new report from […]
José H. Román Morales
AEE está tratando de resolver problemas del siglo 21 con soluciones del siglo 20
Puerto Rico está en proceso de reformar su sistema de energía eléctrica: evaluar su plan integrado de recursos (PIR), aprobar las cambiantes regulaciones, adquirir un concesionario para la transmisión y distribución, y establecer la gerencia privada de plantas de generación de energía, entre otras actividades que afectarán el sistema eléctrico de la Isla en los […]
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Clean Technica: The small Filipino town of Paluan on the island of Mindoro has been electrified with the installation of its own Tesla battery powered solar plus storage minigrid. The new minigrid provides power to local residents who had been living on just a few hours of unstable electricity that came and went as inconsistently […]
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USA Today: Visitors to Casa Pueblo, a community center in this mountain hamlet, can tour the solar-powered meeting rooms, listen in on the solar-powered radio station or catch a documentary at the solar-powered movie theater. Later, they could lunch at one of Puerto Rico’s first fully solar-powered restaurants just down the street. On an island […]
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Quartz: Nigeria’s electricity problems mainly revolve around a power generating system that doesn’t produce enough to match demand and an ineffective tariff system that means power distributing companies can hardly make a profit. Just as crucial, there’s a significant infrastructure gap as more than half of Nigeria’s population lacks access to the national power grid. […]
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Renew Economy: In Onslow, a town used as a base for the huge LNG projects, an even bigger transformation is taking place with a shift towards a renewable energy-focused micro-grid that will reduce the amount of fossil fuels by around 70 per cent. It claims it will be the country’s largest solar and storage micro-grid, […]
IEEFA Philippines: NPC-SPUG shift can drive savings to P13.5 billion per year
Shift from diesel to renewables can save electric coops P1.4-1.7 billion over next decade3 December 2020 (IEEFA Philippines): The record-breaking disasters in the Philippines this year highlight the potential for renewable energy to power small island and isolated power grids and save the country up to P13.5 billion per year, and electric cooperatives an additional P1.4 to P1.7 billion over the next decade, finds a new report from […]