Future Energy: Zero-Carbon Heating
Fifty years ago, natural gas transformed homes with instant heat and hot water. But the days of gas and other fossil fuels dominating domestic fuels may be numbered. Rapidly evolving policy in the EU is searching for technologies to speed up electrification and decarbonization. Heat pumps could be part of the answer, binding households once […]
Electricity demand returns to pre-crisis levels
Brazil’s electric energy consumption has returned to pre-crisis levels, but has yet to recover from the recession that hit the country especially in 2015 and 2016. In 2018, electricity demand totaled 472.2 gigawatt hours, 0.5% below the level reached in 2014, before the crisis.