Global Issues
News headlines for “Energy Security”, page 40
Senegalese Women's Participation in Energy Sector equals Empowerment
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Australia, Jun 24 (IPS) - Aïssata Ba, 45-year-old widow and mother of seven children, has been practising market gardening for the past 30 years in Lompoul Sur Mer village in the Niayes area of north-west Senegal. For many women in the village, endowed with fertile soil and favourable climate, it is the primary source of income throughout the year.
Latin America's Potential Green Hydrogen Economy
- Inter Press Service
LA JOLLA, California, Jun 22 (IPS) - The COVID-19 pandemic and crisis has led to increasing attention and clamor to redouble efforts toward an energy transition that would help the world reduce C02 emissions. In many countries of the region, how to manage hydrocarbons, but with an eye on the energy transition has only been accentuated. We believe clean hydrogen is part of that broader policy and reconstruction debate.
Solar Power Fills Gaps in Underserviced Rural Argentina
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Jun 10 (IPS) - Rice farmers in the Argentine province of Entre Rios often look like mechanics. "They're always full of grease, because they haul diesel fuel around all the time, for their water pumps," says local farmer Arturo Deymonnaz. He, however, doesn't have that problem, because he uses solar energy to grow his rice.
Crisis Hits Oil Industry and Energy Transition Alike
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, May 22 (IPS) - While it attempts to cushion the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, the Latin American and Caribbean region also faces concerns about the future of the energy transition and state-owned oil companies.
Mexico's Development Banks Fuel the Fossil Energy Trade
- Inter Press Service
Since 2012, Teresa Castellanos has fought the construction of a gas-fired power plant in Huexca, in the central Mexican state of Morelos, adjacent to the country's capital.
Electricity Demand During Lockdown: Evidence from Argentina
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Apr 28 (IPS) - Electricity demand normally depends on such variables as retail electricity rates, daytime temperature, time and day of the week, economic activity and consumer type (i.e. residential, commercial, industrial, etc.).
Bioenergy, the Ugly Duckling of Mexico's Energy Transition
- Inter Press Service
OAXACA, Mexico, Apr 10 (IPS) - Rosa Manzano carefully arranges pieces of wood in a big mud igloo that, seven days after it is full, will produce charcoal of high caloric content.
Walking the Talk on Climate Change after the Pandemic: Reorienting State-Owned Enterprises towards Sustainability
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO, Mar 31 (IPS) - This year started with the news of the appearance of a new virus, COVID-19. The impact and severity of its effects in public health, mortality and the world economy are overwhelming. No public health system was prepared for this crisis, and yet governments are reacting deploying different policies to mitigate the crisis, and recover as fast as possible.
Mexico's Plan to Upgrade Hydropower Plants Faces Hurdles
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Mar 30 (IPS) - Water security and profitability are the Achilles heels of the plan to modernise 60 hydroelectric plants in Mexico, drawn up by the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Young People Bring Solar Energy to Schools in the Argentine Capital
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Mar 19 (IPS) - "The idea came to a group of schoolmates and me in 2014, but we never thought it could become a reality," says Sebastián Ieraci, 23, as he points to a multitude of photovoltaic solar panels shining on the roof of the Antonio Devoto High School in the Argentine capital.
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