Monthly archive

Europe & Eurasia Energy News Articles for June 26, 2014

June 26th, 2014

Weekly collection of energy news articles for the region. Click on the links for access to original publications

 

 USAID/USEA ETAG Upcoming Events

Europe & Eurasia Energy News Articles for June 19, 2014

June 19th, 2014

Weekly collection of energy news articles for the region. Click on the links for access to original publications

 USAID/USEA ETAG Upcoming Events

Tanzanian Utilities Review Best Practices in Customer Relations, Communications and Loss Reduction

March 24th, 2014

MARCH 2014 – MANILA & CEBU, THE PHILIPPINES – Funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), energy executives from the Tanzania Electric Supply Company Ltd (TANESCO), Zanzibar Electricity Corporation (ZECO), Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEM) and Energy and Water Regulatory Authority (EWURA) recently participated in the Executive Exchange on Increasing Access to Electricity by Improving Billing, Metering and Collections in Manila and Cebu, the Philippines.

Europe & Eurasia Energy News Articles for June 12, 2014

June 12th, 2014

 

CCS and CCUS in China: Technology and Policy Developments

July 24th, 2014

Everyone likes to cite the statistics for the number of coal plants being built each week/month/year in China. Yet, this is only one part of the story. For example, in January 2013, China’s State council approved a national energy consumption control target (4 billion tonnes of coal equivalent by 2015) which caps total energy growth just above 3 percent per year through 2015. And with respect to coal specifically, the 12th Five Year Plan for Energy Development sets an expected target for coal to account for 65 percent of total energy consumption.

Scrubbing Carbon Dioxide From Ambient Air

August 5th, 2014

After a brief overview of technology options for scrubbing carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere and a discussion of the technical and economic hurdles that need to be overcome,  Dr. Lackner will consider the policy implications of air capture in the current climate change debate. Capture of carbon dioxide from ambient air renders emissions from any source reversible and it defines the cost of unauthorized emissions.

Europe & Eurasia Energy News Articles for June 5, 2014

June 5th, 2014

Weekly collection of energy news articles for the region.  Click on the links for access to original publications

USEA Now Jun 2014 Edition

June 1st, 2014
USEA Now

South Asia Regional Workshop on Competitive Electricity Markets

March 18th, 2014

COLOMBO, SRI LANKA - The United States Energy Association, under the South Asia Regional Initiative for Energy Integration (SARI/EI), with funding from the United States Agency for International Development, organized a South Asia Regional Workshop on Competitive Electricity Markets that took place March 18 – 20, 2014 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Understanding & Improving Cyber-security Capabilities in Critical Infrastructure: Cyber-security Models & Measurement

June 24th, 2014

This presentation will discuss tools to help management  evaluate and understand an organization’s cybersecurity posture and develop a prioritized roadmap for improvement.  Tools discussed include the Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Models (C2M2) developed specifically for the energy sector and the Cyber Resilience Review (CRR) being applied across critical infrastructure sectors.

Pages