In February 2003, London, the capital city of the United Kingdom, introduced a daily congestion fee for vehicles traveling in the city’s central district during weekdays. This fee was meant to ease traffic congestion, improve travel…
Concentrating solar thermal power (CST) has a tremendous potential for scaling up renewable energy at the utility level, diversifying the generation portfolio mix, powering development, and mitigating climate change. A recent surge in…
South Africa faced an acute power crisis beginning January 2008 brought on by a combination of supply-side problems, including coal availability, maintenance needs, and unplanned outages that caused power system reserve margins to fall,…
South Africa is the largest economy on the African continent, accounting for about 35 percent of the region’s GDP. South Africa is also the only country in Sub-Saharan Africa that belongs to the ranks of upper middle-income countries.…
