Power
Cheap energy – and earthquakes: The new power plant driving Britain crazy
The geothermal project at United Downs will power 10,000 homes and may enable district heating and lithium extraction, offering a clean energy solution while also causing minor earthquakes.
How Israel can use soft power without compromising security - opinion
Trump says US captured President Maduro amid strikes, Venezuela declares national emergency
Following shutdown, Iraq expects Iranian gas supplies to resume within a week, official says
China’s efforts to establish regional hegemony - comment
With its re-emergence as the dominant economy in the region, China has widened its claims on features in the South China Sea and islands in the East China Sea.
Why do western diplomats want to ‘engage’ far-right abroad, not at home?
The engagement model has long been pushed by diplomats in western chanceries. This is because it sounds good.
Israeli firms are to compete in New York's new clean energy competition
"NYPA's collaboration with Israeli technology companies will yield mutual benefit by introducing new solutions for commercial usage in large scale electric utilities."
Cause of Israel's near nationwide blackout unknown
The Israel Electric Corporation confirmed the cause of the outages "was definitively not a cyberattack."
Leaving her mark
A conversation with Sigal Regev Rosenberg
Program for sustainability in Palestinian energy gets $63m. in funds
The program calls for sustained financing in order to support long-term planning, interventions in infrastructure and policy reform measures.
Israeli power cuts to West Bank ends after Palestinians pay debt
Israel Electric Corp (IEC) began sporadic, three-hour power cuts on Dec. 18 to press for payment of some $519 million owed by the Jerusalem District Electricity Company (JDECO).
Terra Incognita: Syria’s Kurds, Jewish suffering - history of powerless
Kurds have been hammered into the same stark choices, betrayed both by empires and by the social movements they adopted.
Israel to construct first waste-to-energy power plant
Foreign companies will be invited to participate in the project, which the ministries forecast will be one of several to be constructed in the coming years.
State Gov. Cuomo slams NYC electric company as 30k lose power
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo attacked Con Edison for the outage on Twitter, saying "We've been through this situation w[ith] ConEd time & again & they should have been better prepared—period."
