January 12th, 2019
Via Business Daily Africa, a report on the solar energy/water nexus in some developing countries: Stooped over knee-high rows of green gram plants at her farm in eastern Kenya, Grace Kaari hums to herself as she slices out weeds with a blunt machete. Two years ago, Kaari would not have had time to tend her […]
Read more »Hydropower and Peace In Southeast Asia
January 5th, 2019
Via East Asia Forum, a look at the potential for hydropower to help bring Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal closer together via transnational hydroelectric projects in the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna Basin: South Asia is the world’s most energy and water scarce region per capita. There is an urgent need to consider more ecologically and economically efficient ways of […]
Read more »December 20th, 2018
Via Yale’s Center for Busienss and Environment, a report on undergroung watergy: Why hasn’t saving water as a way of saving energy had its day in the sun yet in the United States? At Horizon18 in Boston on Oct. 11, speakers at the session “Smart Water Solutions and the Energy-Water Nexus” reflected on the sparkle […]
Read more »Watergy Nexus Gets $100 Million From U.S. Department of Energy
December 15th, 2018
Via CleanTechnica, a report on new watergy funding in the U.S.: File this one under W for What a coincidence! Seven southwestern US states are facing a drop-dead deadline for figuring out a new way to divvy up the dwindling waters of the Colorado River, and meanwhile the US Department of Energy has just announced […]
Read more »December 6th, 2018
Via Future Directions International, a look at hydropower in Nepal and Myanmar: Hydropower is the foundation of the Chinese transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. In the past two decades it has added more than 300GW of hydroelectricity to its grid. China sees itself as a global leader in the development of hydropower and is willing to […]
Read more »Hydroelectric Power in Laos: Economic Security in Energy-Hungry South-East Asia
October 25th, 2018
Via Future Directions International, a report on Laos’ hydroelectric potential: Hydroelectricity is at the core of Laos’ strategy to become the “Battery of Asia”. The export of electricity to neighbouring high-growth states, such as Thailand, is predicted to stimulate economic development. The average Laotian is likely to benefit from new employment opportunities, greater access to electricity and the […]
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