AGP Executive Report
Last update: 7 hours agoStorm Response: Con Edison shut power to 1,559 customers in Jackson Heights, Queens, after voltage reductions and repairs amid NYC heat and humidity. Outage Scale: In Ohio, storms left more than 4,100 customers without power across multiple counties, with crews working overnight and preparing for more weather. Grid Resilience: Hong Kong’s CLP outlined typhoon-season upgrades, including lightning protection, reinforced poles, and anti-flooding at substations. Renewables Finance: Cambodia is pushing renewables to blunt oil-price shocks and is working with the ADB on a SCALE initiative to expand local-bank renewable financing. Policy Reform: Nepal’s energy minister says “license raj” is ending, aiming to curb project hoarding and speed genuine private participation in generation, trade, and transmission. Transmission Bottleneck: Nepal’s utility acting MD warned monsoon surplus is being wasted due to delayed transmission builds, calling for private-sector help. Energy Infrastructure Investment: Hitachi Energy plans a ₹2,000 crore transformer plant in Vadodara to support India’s transmission buildout for non-fossil capacity growth. Nuclear Supply Chain: India retrospectively exempted customs duty on certain nuclear power generation imports from 2019–2026, easing costs for fuel-related components. AI Power Demand: A U.S. homeowner says her bill rose despite lower usage, pointing to AI data-center-driven grid costs.
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