5 spunti per approfondire (42/2024)

La rubrica settimanale con i consigli di lettura di RivistaEnergia.it, dall’Europa e dal mondo. Settimana 42/2024

“UK chancellor Rachel Reeves is hoping to attract billions of pounds of private finance to upgrade the nation’s creaking infrastructure and will be courting potential investors at the government’s investment summit on Monday. Private finance schemes are already used more extensively in the UK than anywhere else in the world and include the energy, water and telecoms sectors and some ports and roads. Companies and investment funds provide upfront cash for projects, mostly in the form of loans with some equity. They recoup and earn a return on their initial investment via customer bills or taxpayer charges, sometimes over many years.”

How will the UK government pay for much-needed infrastructure upgrades?
Articolo – Financial Times
Gill Plimmer

“California utility giant PG&E Corp. started cutting power supplies to reduce the chances of the company’s equipment igniting wildfires amid gusty winds and dry conditions. PG&E said it switched off electricity to 5,450 homes and businesses located in four counties north of Sacramento, according to a statement. The utility said about 20,000 customers located in 24 counties, including several in the San Francisco Bay Area, could also lose power from the intentional shutoffs”

California Blackouts Begin for 5,400 Customers on Fire Threats
Articolo – Bloomberg
Mark Chediak

“In a war with Israel, Iran would need money. Not just to buy weapons and keep its economy afloat, but to re-arm militias such as Hamas and Hizbullah. Many assume that, after years of sanctions, it would struggle. They are wrong. Every year Iran funnels tens of billions of dollars from illicit oil sales to bank accounts all over the world. This huge, secret treasure was used to fund Hamas’s attack on Israel a year ago, swarms of Russian drones in Ukraine and Iran’s own nuclear programme. It has already seeded many crises—and could soon fuel the mother of them all.”

Inside the secret oil trade that funds Iran’s wars
Articolo – The Economist

“World Energy Outlook 2024 shows critical choices facing governments and consumers as period of more ample supplies nears and surging electricity demand reshapes energy security Regional conflicts and geopolitical strains are highlighting significant fragilities in today’s global energy system, making clear the need for stronger policies and greater investments to accelerate and expand the transition to cleaner and more secure technologies, according to the IEA’s new World Energy Outlook 2024.”

World Energy Outlook 2024
Report – IEA

“The achievement of 16 out of the 123 sustainable development goals (SDGs) indicates the vast task ahead for Turkey. Addressing the aspects of ecological sustainability via the trend of the ratio of biocapacity to ecological footprint, this study seeks to examine whether energy security, financial development, natural resources and economic expansion drive Turkey’s load capacity factor. By implementing quantile-on-quantile and its Granger causality dimension, the results largely affirm the statistically significant effect of energy security on the load capacity factor in all quantiles. Although this impact is weak, it is significantly positive, thus indicating that the country’s energy security profile is advancing its ecological sustainability. Similarly, globalization positively impacts the load capacity factor by a strong dimension. Conversely, financial development and economic growth exert a significant but negative effect on the load capacity factor in most quantiles, which reflects the undesirability of these indicators on the country’s environmental sustainability drive.”

Charting Sustainable Future on Energy Security, Financial Development, Natural Resources and Economic Output for Turkey
Ricerca – Mustafa Necati Coban, Zafer Adali, Oktay Ozkan, Andrew Adewale Alola

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