The consequences of an unmitigated rise that steep will be “an avalanche” of people falling into debt or rationing heating, saysAdam Scorerat fuel poverty charity National Energy Action. For those who cut down on heating, “it’s damp, it’s cold, you will get ill, your chi...
To mitigate any ‘energy rationing’, the government is considering extending the lifeline of three coal-fired power stations. These were scheduled to shut in 2024 as part of the UK’s ambitious net-zero pledge. Since late 2020, the UK has been in the throes of one of the worst e...
Europe claims their gas storage facilities are almost full –but they are still talking about energy rationing, in the wake of Russia’s complete gas shutdown. Biden promised to ship more US gas, but now the USA itself is running short. Biden recently told US exporters to cut back, because...
When people cannot afford adequate warmth or mobility, they often adopt coping strategies that can damage their health or further entrench poverty, such as tightly rationing home energy consumption and transport usage or cutting back on other essential expenses (for example, food or medical care)22...
A new policy approach is needed to deliver carbon dioxide savings in the UK; this paper proposes carbon rationing for personal energy use. Current policies are extremely unlikely to result in sufficient savings to meet the 2010 national reduction target. Indeed, when international air travel ...
Achieving proper water and energy rationing is a relevant problem that must be overcome during the implementation of crop control systems in greenhouses. Additionally, the effects of climate change and trends in water scarcity must be considered, as they vary between different regions of the world....
This turned out not to be the case and, in a period of time in which Chile faced the risk of energy rationing, the project was approved without significant objections. In the case of Ralco the legal and regulatory conditions were different. Ralco is located upstream of Pangue reservoir ...
(2012) in Vienna, Austria examined low income households' rationing of both heating and lighting, as well as their coping with energy bills in a more general sense; Santamouris et al. (2007) acknowledged air conditioning for summer cooling as a significant energy demand in Greece although they...
Electricity cost had spiked in UK and China that implemented electricity rationing. However, as the Chinese saying goes, every crisis presents an opportunity. What opportunity does the current energy crisis present to investors? How will the COP26 climate change conference affect the energy sector?
Kenya suffered a nationwide blackout on Friday morning, the second in a week. State officials have been unable to explain to the public the cause of the increasingly frequent power outages. In a press briefing on the same day, Energy Cabinet Secretary Op