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Merry Christmas Everyone. Sitting here cooking Christmas dinner and watching the oven timer click down gives me time to catch up on some reading that I've been putting off, so it's good to have a little down time to do what I want as I "cook the bird". This article provides a nice overview of the "Cyber Risks" that impacted many people throughout 2024. From..
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In an era when utilities and power generators rely on digital information technology (IT) infrastructure to help manage oversight of plant operations, ensuring uptime has never been more essential. Unfortunately, […]
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Energy: who is the biggest consumer in Brazil? This question arouses our curiosity, of course! In Brazil the biggest consumer is called "CAT" – the nick name for power theft which in the technical jargon is known as "non technical losses".. And by far! THE CAT is, objectively, a criminal, who has lived in broad daylight for many decades. It can only be like this..
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In 2017, the 10 largest power companies, ranked by their installed generation capacity, owned 18% of total global installed capacity, while the next-largest 15 owned around 10%—meaning that the top 25 companies own nearly 30% of global installed power generation capacity, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). Chinese companies account for more than one-eighth of global installed capacity, owing to that country’s expansion of its generation fleet
to 1,750 GW, from about 400 GW in 2003. By comparison, in 2003, European-owned utilities dominated the list, accounting for almost 13% of installed capacity worldwide. Source: © OECD/IEA 2018 World Energy Outlook.
—Copy and artwork by Sonal Patel, a POWER associate editor.
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