Wind Power to the Rescue
Akihabara News (Tokyo) In Japanese history,
kamikaze was the “divine wind” that protected Japan from Mongol invasions and inspired suicide attacks in the Pacific War. Now, as the country struggles to balance its energy needs with sustainability, it’s again hoping wind power will come to the rescue.
Resource-poor Japan has to import most of its energy, but offshore wind is poised to become a significant component in a new energy mix. In October 2020, the Japanese government said it would reduce the country’s carbon emissions to net zero by 2050, and now it’s moving to set up coastal wind turbines to help meet that goal. Zero emissions wind power is seen as one component of the new net zero strategy.
Kenya fails to connect 1.28m to power grid
Monday December 21 2020
By CONSTANT MUNDA
Summary
The Energy Ministry says Kenya Power and Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation (Rerec) connected 1,522,858 customers to the national grid in the three-year period, a 45.61 percent shortfall over the 2.8 million goal.
The agencies, mandated to distribute power, connected 581,639 out of 1.2 million customers targeted in the year ended June 2018 and 440,822 out of 800,000 clients they had set out to connect in the year that followed.
Additional 500,397 customers were hooked to the electricity mains in the year ended June 2020, the data shows, but fell short of the 800,000 target by 37.45 percent or 299,603 clients.