Cuba will suffer simultaneous blackouts in up to 29.6% of the country this Saturday due to the combination of breakdowns in some infrastructure and the “unavailability” of fuel, official sources explained. The island has thus spent more than a week with daily impact rates – the percentage of maximum demand that generation is not able […]
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Indecopi has this week to resolve the sale of Enel to the Chinese state company CSGI
After completing the transfer of its electricity generation business in Peru to the British investment fund Actis, the Italian capital company Enel is now preparing to sell its electricity distribution business to the Chinese state-owned Southern Power Grid (CSGI), an operation agreed for US$2.9 billion at the beginning of the year and which awaits the […]
Peru has wasted energy potential, stated the COES
He Peru has the potential to generate 26,000 megawatts (MW) of renewable energyHowever, various obstacles prevent this projection from being realized. In this regard, by 2034, it is estimated that the country will require another 2,800 MW of energy; however, current projects do not cover this demand. This information was published this Friday, October 27 […]
More than 80 million people in the US under alerts for sweltering heat wave
More than 80 million people were this Sunday under official warnings or forecasts of heat waves excessive in western, southern, and southeastern states USAhit in some cases by record temperatures. The National Weather Service (NWS) warned on Sunday of “a widespread and sweltering heat wave” across much of the west to the southeast, temperatures that […]
Attracting capital, the great challenge for the energy transition in Latin America
Latin America it starts on the road to the energy transition with an advantageous position, but the development of alternative sources faces the difficult challenge of attracting capital flows to finance it. This was explained by the executive secretary of the Association of Oil, Gas and Renewable Energy Companies of Latin America and the Caribbean […]
France fines Iberdrola more than US$200,000 for misleading advertising
The Spanish energy giant iberdrola agreed to pay a fine of 200,000 euros ($218,000) for a “deceptive business practice” in 2021, the anti-fraud service announced Thursday in France. “The facts are due to a difference in rates between the prices shown and those applied, and also of duration in a period in which the prices […]
Cold showers and no light: Europe saves due to lack of Russian gas
After midnight, anti-waste activists scatter like urban guerrillas through the dark streets of Paris, climbing walls and pipes to reach switches and turn off lights. Click. Click. Click. One by one, the exterior lights that the shops have left on are turned off. It’s a small but symbolic gesture in Europe’s massive energy-saving effort to […]
Europe had never paid as much for electricity as in 2021
Updated on 03/01/2022 03:21 am Europe I had never paid so much for electricity as in 2021. The short-term average cost of energy soared to record levels this year, increasing more than 200% in Germany, France, Spain and the United Kingdom. In the Nordic region, where vast supplies of hydroelectric power tend to limit prices, […]
Ecuador dismisses four managers of state electricity and oil companies due to drop in crude production
Updated on 10/19/2021 05:55 pm Ecuador He dismissed the managers of three electricity companies and one oil company, all state-owned, due to failures in the supply of the service that resulted in the loss of some US $ 44,000 barrels of crude, informed the Minister of Energy, Juan Carlos Bermeo. “It is regrettable that, despite […]