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Protecting Power System Infrastructures from Arc Flash and Voltage Instability
2017-08-28 22:11:36| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
This white paper presents an overview of common issues impacting power system infrastructures, their causes, and how Phaseback prevents these issues from inflicting damage to US power systems from transmission to end users.
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Report: Fiscal regime instability continues as countries weather falling oil prices
2016-07-29 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
The global implication of a low oil price environment on the fiscal and regulatory framework of countries is evident even after two years of the start of the oil crisis, says a GlobalData expert insight.
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Water cycle instability is here to stay posing major political and economic risks
2016-04-07 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The current instability and unpredictability of the world water cycle is here to stay, making society's adaptation to new risks a vital necessity when formulating development policies, a UN water expert warns. Robert Sandford, the EPCOR Chair for Water and Climate Security at the United Nations University's Canadian-based Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), says long-term water cycle stability "won't return in the lifetime of anyone alive today." "What we haven't understood...
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Pakistan's climate-instigated instability and threats
2015-07-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Express Tribune: As the death toll from the severe heatwave in Sindh kept mounting during the past week, so did political tensions and blame-shifting, including the opposition seizing the opportunity to criticise the government for its ineptness, and the government in turn claiming that it is entities like K-Electric which are at fault for failing to supply electricity, in turn exacerbating the problem. The minister for climate change has even pointed a finger at coal-powered plants in Rajasthan, for contributing...
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BIO Claims RFS Policy Instability has chilled biofuel investments.
2015-05-08 14:31:08| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
According to BIO's Brent Erickson, EPA rulemaking delays generated Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program instability and "intolerable investment uncertainty." Erickson claimed policy instability responsible for "chilling" up to $13.7 billion worth of investments needed by advanced biofuel industry to build capacity to meet RFS goals. As cited, heaviest impact was on cellulosic biofuel developers. Other effects included undercutting new employment opportunities and loss of 80,000+ direct jobs.
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