#energy-demand

#energy-demand

Each day, Kiran Kasbe drives a rickshaw taxi through his home neighbourhood of Mahul on Mumbai's eastern seafront, down streets lined with stalls selling tomatoes, bottle gourds and auberginesand, frequently, through thick smog. Earlier this year, doctors found three tumours in his 54-year-old mother's brain. It's not clear exactly what caused her cancer. But people who live near coal plants are much more likely to develop the illness, studies show, and the residents of Mahul live a few hundred metres down the road from one.

"The average peak electricity demand per property was lower than we would expect."

I'm thinking primarily of the price of essentials: food and electricity. I suspect that the price of food will go up noticeably between now and the middle of next year. The Trump administration is deporting people left and right. Many of those people are farmworkers. If you get rid of a lot of farmworkers, one of two things happens: Either vegetables rot in the fields or farmers pay more to attract employees to harvest the crop.

The growth in electricity demand from data centers is threatening the South's transition away from fossil fuels and toward clean energy. Current projections indicate an increase in reliance on fossil fuels, further raising carbon emissions.

The United States’ power grid, an aging network nearly a century old, must modernize to cope with increasing demand and extreme weather conditions driven by climate change.

By 2030, the US electricity grid is forecasted to be tightly constrained, with minimal safety margins, raising concerns about stability and reliability.

U.S. manufacturers produced only 4.2 GW of solar modules in the first half of 2024, a 75% increase compared to 2023, but still far short of demand.