February 5th, 2023
Via Bloomberg, a report on the watergy impact of South Africa’s power crisis: Parts of Johannesburg, South Africa’s economic hub, are being subjected to renewed water-supply cuts as ongoing electricity shortages disrupt pumping operations. A power failure at Rand Water’s Eikenhof pump station, which supplies reservoirs in several high-lying areas of Johannesburg, resulted in critically […]
Read more »The Water-Energy Nexus – A Toolkit For Innovation
January 31st, 2023
Via The Source, a report on a new book aiming to help the water sector reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases: The global demand for energy and water is intensifying because of a growing world population, better standards of living in developing countries, and significant industrial growth in countries such as China and India. Water is […]
Read more »January 29th, 2023
Via The Washington Post, a look at the watergy impact of artificial snowmaking: A lack of snow and abnormally mild temperatures are threatening ski resorts in the eastern United States, Europe and Asia. As natural snow becomes scarcer and temperatures creep too high for traditional snow machines, new technology is helping a growing number of […]
Read more »Could Floating Solar Farms Survive At Sea?
January 22nd, 2023
Via BBC, a look at the potential of sea-based solar farms: Indonesia is a nation of more than 10,000 islands, so supplying the whole country with electricity is a huge challenge. More than a million people are not connected to the electricity grid at all. “Those people who don’t have electricity are living on remote […]
Read more »January 10th, 2023
Via The Diplomat, a report that Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Kazakh Energy Ministers signed an agreement to build a new hydropower plant in Kyrgyzstan: On January 6, the energy ministers of Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan signed an agreement on the construction of the Kambar-Ata-1 hydropower plant on the Naryn river in Kyrgyzstan. Meeting in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Energy Minister Taalaibek […]
Read more »Portugal’s Pumped Storage Future
January 3rd, 2023
Courtesy of The New York Times, an article on how – when the Portuguese electric power grid needs more electricity – a large multinational power company releases millions of gallons of water from a dammed reservoir: When Portugal’s electrical system needs a boost, a signal activates a power plant buried deep in a hillside in the […]
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