In a report, the Paris-based International Energy Agency estimates new electronic gadgets will triple their energy consumption by 2030 to 1,700 terawatt hours, the equivalent of today’s home electricity consumption of the United States and Japan combined.
The chief of American Electric Power (AEP) described his strategy to ClimateWire in an article today. “This technology is going to save the existing [coal] fleet and save the American electrical consumer trillions of dollars,” he claimed, while acknowledging that so-called clean coal “could raise rates in some areas from 5-7 cents per kilowatt-hour to as much as 15 cents per kilowatt-hour.”
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