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Man reveals the two appliances racking up his energy bill - despite being on standby

The energy-saver used an electricity meter to find out that some household appliances can cost as much as £60 a year when they're left plugged in on standby mode

Daily Mirror

Record-high electricity price rise approved

The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has approved an 18% rise in the price of electricity for the September-December quarter, to a record-high 4.72 baht per kilowatt hour (unit).

Bangkok Post

Kosovo starts power cuts as a result of energy crisis

Kosovo’s energy distribution company, KEDS, said it would start power cuts at 8 a.m. on Monday because of a lack of domestic production and high import prices.“Consumers will have six hours on and two hours off,” KEDS spokesperson Viktor Buzhala told Reuters. The company did not say when the cuts…

Reuters

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Data | 75 years of independence: A comparison of India’s growth with other nations across ten indicators

Where does India stand when compared to countries that had become independent in the same time period and with other developed nations?

The Hindu

Wind, hydrogen, no demolitions: how next PM can put UK on net zero path

Boris Johnson’s plans are behind schedule and the CBI says Britain is falling behind Europe and the US

The Guardian - UK

Automatic monthly power rate revision on government anvil

NEW DELHI: The power ministry is seeking to implement automatic monthly revision in electricity tariffs by changing the Electricity Regulations 2005 to achieve a key objective of the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2022 that is stuck in Parliament’s standing committee on energy.

The Times of India

‘Overwhelmed’ food banks forced to turn people away after running out of food

Exclusive: Demand for help now fast outstripping supply, say charities hit by empty shelves

The Independent UK

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Labour's £29bn cost of living plan in full - what it gives you and how they'll fund it

Labour would scrap a £400 cost-of-living payment and instead freeze electricity and gas bills at their current level for the winter by handing energy firms £29bn. We look at the plan in detail

Daily Mirror

Resources minister says 'astounding' level of coal in national power grid

Bob Hawes wants gas, Resources Minister Madeleine King questions coal

Newcastle Herald

Electricity retailers raise fixed charges to recoup costs after record highs in spot market

Even energy-conscious consumers who have reduced their power usage are being slugged with higher bills thanks to rising fixed daily charges.

ABC News

Some benefit claimants face spending 'more than half' their cash on energy bills

Labour research claimed a single, childless claimant will spend 59% of their cash on electricity and gas from January - even after £400 of help for energy bills is included

Daily Mirror

‘The house was freezing’: life during blackouts of 1970s Britain

With winter power cuts a possibility amid energy crisis, some Britons remember them as ‘very ordinary’

The Guardian - UK

Spain Bans A.C. Below 80 Degrees During Record-Setting Summer Heat

This stunt to save energy will do very little but make people sweat

Reason

Can Manchester avoid a winter of blackouts?

Worst-case scenario could see country left short of power

Manchester Evening News

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Vanuatu, one of the most climate-vulnerable countries, launches ambitious climate plan

The Pacific country has committed to 100% renewable energy in electricity generation by 2030

Newcastle Herald

What offshore wind farms could mean for the Hunter

Wind farms off the coast of Newcastle moved a step closer to reality last week when the federal government listed the Hunter as one of six preferred sites for the technology.

ABC News

Flood warnings as heavy rains fall across Tasmania, threatening to break records for August

It is not official yet, but weather experts say Sunday's heavy rains across Tasmania look to have broken records for all-time biggest downpours in a number of locations.

The Independent UK

UK power sector to ‘wargame’ energy rationing amid threat of days-long blackouts

Exclusive: Industry insiders are preparing for energy rationing measures, and the government has discussed the risk of mass non-payment of bills

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The Independent UK

Climate bill: Could coal communities shift to nuclear?

A major economic bill headed to the president has “game-changing” incentives for the nuclear energy industry, experts say, and those tax credits are even more substantial if a facility is sited in a community with a coal plant that's closing

The Hindu

Subsidies on power will continue: Power Secretary

Alok Kumar says State governments will have the discretion to continue

The Times of India

BEST case: Maharashtra minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha, Legislative Assembly speaker Rahul Narvekar face draft charges

MUMBAI: Draft charges were submitted on Friday in a case allegedly involving assembly speaker Rahul Narvekar and state minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha for assembling with others at BEST Bhavan to protest against a hike in electricity bill during the Covid lockdown in 2020.

AAP

Household solar cuts power bills, anxiety

Solar-fitted households are riding out the energy crisis with low bills, and most would add a battery to their clean energy arsenal if helped by a subsidy.

Los Angeles Times

California could lend PG&E $1.4 billion to save Diablo Canyon nuclear plant

A last-minute proposal from Gov. Gavin Newsom could keep the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open through 2035, a decade beyond its current closure date — in part by giving owner Pacific Gas & Electric Co. a $1.4-billion forgivable loan.

The Hindu

Congress assures loan waiver, free electricity to farmers, if voted to power in Gujarat

Assembly elections are due by year-end in Gujarat

Manchester Evening News

Huge emergency response after car ploughs into house

The incident caused 'significant' structural damage, firefighters have confirmed

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