September 16th, 2021
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting article on Laos’ use of its watergy advantage to build a new industry: Laos has authorised the mining and trading of cryptocurrencies, in a policy shift by the debt-laden south-east Asian nation that positions it to profit from the crackdown on digital currency mining in China. Analysts said […]
Read more »Renewable Energy for Water–Energy Nexus in Euphrates and Tigris River Basin
September 16th, 2021
Via Springer, an interesting abstract for a paper examining the watergy nexus in the Euphrates and Tigris River basin: Understanding the interdependency of energy and water and the influencing factors as well as how this interrelation impacts the other essential sectors for the riparian states in the Euphrates and Tigris river basin. A literature review […]
Read more »September 2nd, 2021
Via STRATFOR (subscription required), a quick summary of Brazil’s watergy crisis: What Happened: Brazil’s energy crisis is worse than previously thought amid particularly low rainfall that has significantly reduced hydropower generation, according to the country’s energy minister Bento Albuquerque, Folha de Sao Paulo reported Aug. 31. Federal agencies in Brazil have been directed to cut overall […]
Read more »California Hits Drought Milestone As Oroville Hydropower Stops For First Time
August 7th, 2021
Via Politico, a report on an auspicious watergy crisis in California: California water managers on Thursday shut down hydropower generation at Lake Oroville for the first time ever due to falling lake levels, a major milestone in the state’s historic drought. What happened: The Hyatt Powerplant at Lake Oroville went offline for the first time in […]
Read more »July 19th, 2021
Via Vice, a report on the impact that California’s drought will have upon its renewable energy production: Officials are preparing for the likelihood that California’s record breaking drought will come for its renewable energy stores. The West Coast state, which has been weathering wildfires, 126-year rainfall lows, and a historic heat dome, announced on Friday that it is preparing for […]
Read more »Hydropower Push Leaves Pakistani Kashmir’s Capital Hot and Bothered
July 16th, 2021
Via the Thomson Reuters Foundation, an article on how the diversion of Muzaffarabad’s Neelum river for clean power has raised summer temperatures – and a second river may be diverted too: On hot summer evenings, Khawaja Magbool Hadieri’s family used to sit on their home’s balcony and relish the cool breeze wafting off the nearby […]
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