AGP Executive Report
Last update: 8 hours agoGrid & Policy: Nepal’s NEA starts charging 5% VAT on electricity bills for households using more than 50 units per month, with millions exempted but higher users facing added costs. Tariffs & Reliability: Pakistan’s CPPA asked NEPRA to raise power tariffs by Rs1.19 per unit for June fuel charges adjustment, citing higher generation fuel costs and a mix that still leans on hydropower and coal. Renewables Buildout: Scotland approved two offshore wind farms—Caledonia North and South—totaling about 2 GW, though developers still need environmental mitigation sign-offs. Project Execution: RWE hit the halfway mark on Denmark’s 1.1 GW Thor offshore wind farm, installing 36 of 72 turbines with full operation targeted for 2027. Grid Operations Under Stress: Ukraine reported new outages in five regions after Russian strikes, while Tunisia resorted to rolling power cuts during a heatwave as demand surged. Solar in the Real World: Malaysia’s Gentari deployed a 3.1 MWp solar system at KLIA2 to supply airport operations under a power purchase agreement. Nuclear & Cyber: India’s Kudankulam nuclear plant faced a reported dark-web data leak; the operator says no nuclear security-sensitive information was exposed. Consumer Impact: France’s thunderstorms left 53,000 households without power and caused at least two deaths. Tech & Industry: Hitachi Energy and Eve Air Mobility signed a deal to power eVTOL vertiports, tackling the grid and high-power charging challenge.
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