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Depends on location.
Rare power cuts in Gujarat or Mumbai. Heck even with the rains and so called flooding we got power here in Ka
wow, where is this?
Finland quite the opposite, typically just under 1second brownouts. I cannot recall a legitimate grid power outage in cities happening in a really long time, apart from maintenance and small scale stuff.
It's so reliable that UPS can actually introduce you to more downtime than not having one, and in fact is quite often the case.
Chennai
Welcome to land of free electricity ;-)
Why you complaining, man??
This was Putin's & china's plan in the making decades ago, support the green crowd with funds & donations, get nuclear energy phased out, sell cheap gas to Europe & become Europe's lifeline in energy, and get a huge port in the black sea for the eventual completion of china's belt & road initiative, start a land war in Europe to kickstart the world energy crisis. Citizens all over Europe will start blaming the EU & the dissolution of the European Union will start. With the downfall of the European Union, the united states stand alone in the rise of the red dragon in the upcoming century.
This is a fictional story
Can you survive under 100 units lol?
https://www.electrical4u.net/calculator/tneb-bill-calculator-tneb-reading-calculator/
If you cross 500 units mark it becomes very expensive. I use AC only when it's absolutely necessary.
In my hotel in Navi Mumbai, there were power outages every day. Not sure where this happened on the grid, but I’m sure it would be challenging for industrial users.
And then the problem is that a growing data centre industry would put more stress on this grid, and in theory this means the utilities invest and upgrade, but you know… Usually industries in India which need high quality electricity build their own power plant, right?
The EU plan to force the energy prices down by putting a cap on Russian gas and the revenues of companies producing electricity with low costs. They will be discussing it Friday and I hope they can come to an agreement and implement it fast.
The statement from the EU president:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/SPEECH_22_5389
To then buy the same gas for 3x the price from Chinese as LNG. Sounds like a plan.
Very large factories, yes. Makes sense for them to have a captive power plant. Some actually sell electricity back to the grid.
Datacenters will rely on grid + Diesel generators + (Solar for non critical lighting). If we disregard power reliability and quality for sake of argument, grid power is at about 10 US cents/ Kwh, Grid + diesel combined works out to about 20 US cents. 2x the cost which can be easily offset by some financial engineering. For example:
Had an interesting conversation with DC folks last week- focus is now on net zero footprint, not just energy (water, recycling, equipment re use/ disposal, etc.) so the electricity cost conversation is non starter. In reality, they will certainly spin all the potential environmental savings into some financial bond or any other instrument, and sell it to an ESG (Environmental, Social, Corporate Governance) theme fund or investor. And subsidize the extra 10 US cents in electricity costs. But I liked to see this evolution -atleast when people talk.
I can almost bet that the hotel you stayed in still had temporary construction power - that might explain the outages. @Abd stays in the area and he might be able to attest to the power situation - but typical how Hotel operators run their shops.
Best rgds,
It's a very small amount of Russian natural gas that has been replaced by LNG from China.
But you are right, it is not ideal, but it is better temporarily to pay more as long as Russia earns a lot less.
And China will not be a long-term LNG supplier to the EU countries if they just resell Russian gas.
Holy shit, we almost ran out of electricity this morning!
Reserve power plants had to be turned on AND public offers were being requested, for friggin' 5000€/MWh -- 5€/KWh. They managed to get the situation under control. Dang, when demand increases in the winter ... Yeah.
is this in Finland? where did you read this?
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/finland-starts-two-backup-power-plants-prevent-blackouts-2022-09-08/
5€/KWh And winter hasn't even started yet. When everyone uses electric heating in the winter :P
I see @DP already linked an article for @ehab
Yea this was in Finland. I don't know if they needed to use any of that 5€/KWh rate, it sounds like they were ready to. Also somethings got shutdown to keep the grid going, it's an old school technique that meters have emergency grid issue control outlet, so the grid operators can shutdown appliances at large. Even i didn't know this exists before ~last week. It's completely optional tho, and separate control. In the old days used to control electric heaters in a home typically.
Good talk about the situation, and that it might last for a decade:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=0Oh_w5KrEVc
At first I was like: Time to fire up Duolingo again, then I saw there were subtitles
Please don't hide "! This is a fictional story" in the spoiler button next time.
Despite the current situation, raising prices is a too clumsy and short-sighted option. Many providers opt for more elegant solutions, adding new exciting add-ons that are worth paying for, discounts, and so on.
I think many providers simply do not have a choice. When the cost of running a server is higher than what you charge the customer for it, you have to raise the prices or you will literally lose money by the minute.
Discounts are really not a solution. When you lose money on every server you run, selling more servers at an even higher loss is really not a good idea.
Exactly this.
You cannot discount your way out when you are loosing money on every new server. ~10x electricity cost is no joke. And that's just the electricity, everything else is getting more expensive too, and electricity is used to make almost everything in the world, so it's double whammy accelerating inflation.
Haha:) No, of course, it's just imperialism - you always need to find a new market and expand. "Green", "Eco" is a very big market for this when you cannot capture a new market in the traditional way. Just say that humanity needs to do something about the "ozone hole", and voila, you have a reason to replace the old freezers based on freon with some other technology - get grants for new scientific research, implementation and production.
You are in fact a piece of shit if you think healing the Ozone Layer is a bad thing. Jesus F. Christ, STOP DRINKING THE KOOL-AID!
Wow, you speak pretty knowledgeably on behalf of all mankind.
Also: LOL.
Has any major EU country told its citizens "you need to start conserving and using less energy"?
The Economist wrote about this in March (paywall):
"What is startling is how little is being asked of Europeans. Even simple measures that might barely inconvenience people are treated as taboo. Earlier this month the International Energy Agency (iea), which advises rich-country governments, suggested that Europeans might consider turning down the thermostat by just one degree centigrade. What might seem like mere virtue-signalling greenery would actually cut consumption by 10bn cubic metres of natural gas over a year. That is roughly one month’s worth of Russian imports. This modest appeal was relayed by precisely nobody in office."
Has anything changed?
This is neither bad nor good. It just has nothing to do with reality most likely. We have no evidence that the "ozone hole" was caused by human activity. Just as we don't have sufficient evidence that climate change is related to humanity. Who knows, maybe it's just another climatic period. This is just one of hypotheses.
If you trust everything you've watched in the media, then I don't know what you're drinking either.
I have heard that this is not just recommended, but also required now. It's not such a bad idea, in fact it's a culture of resource use. You need to save water, electricity, eat as much food as you need (about 40% of the products are simply sent to the trash).
No, you stupid fuck, there is SCIENCE. With DATA. Plenty of it.
You truly make me sad and angry. I used to think you were just misinformed, but I've realized it's much, much worse. SMH
Forehead slap beyond what any GIF could express.
I don't agree with you, but that's actually a completely different situation and different set of scientific facts. CFCs were identified as a problem in 1973 and by 1987 every country had signed up to get rid of them. In fact, it was the first universal treaty in UN history. How many things are there that every planet on the country agrees with?
The elimination of CFCs is one of the least controversial things in history. It's like arguing that spam is not caused by human activity.