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272 #cryptocurrency digging machines seized in #Kosovo village

Source: https://www.slobodenpecat.mk/en/vo-kosovsko-selo-zapleneti-272-aparati-za-kopanje-kriptovaluti-troshat-struja-kolku-500-domakjinstva/

This morning, 272 Antiminer devices were confiscated in an operation by the Customs and Kosovo #Police in the northern part of the country. These plants, if left uninterrupted, consume approximately 300.000 kilowatt-hours of #electricity, which is the average consumption of 500 houses. With the current import prices, it comes out to 60.000-120.000 euros per month. "That is what we are talking about when we say that we can not allow someone to get rich illegally on the backs of taxpayers," Murati wrote.

#news #btc #bitcoin #mining #energy #law #justice #taxes

272 cryptocurrency digging machines seized in Kosovo village - 500 households consume electricity - Free Press

Kosovo Finance Minister Hekuran Murati says the 272 cryptocurrency mining machines seized today in a village near Leposavic, a Serb-populated northern part of the country, consume as much electricity as an average of 500 households. said the MIA...

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EU’s energy prices.

Climate change is a real threat and we need a more sustainable economic system, but beware of scams carried out by the global oligarchs.

EU’s marginal pricing system in the electricity markets:

”Electricity producers (from national utilities to individuals who generate their own renewable energy and sell into the grid) bid into the market: they establish their price according to their production cost. Renewable energy sources are produced at zero cost, and are therefore by definition always cheapest. The bidding goes from the cheapest **to most expensive.* The cheapest electricity is bought first, next offers in line follow. Once the full demand is satisfied, everybody obtains the price of the last producer from which electricity was bought.”*

Source: https://ec.europa.eu/energy/topics/markets-and-consumers/EU-energy-prices_en

Also, EU’s ‘carbon credits’ (EU ETS) are skyrocketing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_price#/media/File:ETS-allowance-prices.svg

As a result, electricity prices are skyrocketing in some countries. See Spain for example: https://www.epdata.es/datos/precio-factura-luz-datos-estadisticas/594

Many farmers and small businesses are going bankrupt and factories are closing down because of these artificially created energy prices.

#scam #GreenWashing #CarbonCredits #EU #ETS #Europe #Spain #España #energy #electricity #ClimateChange

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How to generate your own solar energy

Now off the shelf plug-n-play solar is available for anyone. Mount the solar panel(s) and plug into a wall socket. Job done.

You can find small, self-made solar power panels on walls and balconies, roofs and terraces all over the world. Here's a look at what kinds of systems are out there — and how to build them, keeping in mind costs.

https://www.dw.com/en/how-to-generate-your-own-solar-energy/a-58996835

#Solar #electricity #SolarElectricity #renewable #GreenEnergy #green #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

How to generate your own solar energy | DW | 01.09.2021

You can find small, self-made solar power panels on walls and balconies, roofs and terraces all over the world. Here's a look at what kinds of systems are out there — and how to build them, keeping in mind costs.

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'World's most powerful tidal turbine' starts to export power to grid 

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/28/worlds-most-powerful-tidal-turbine-starts-to-export-power-to-grid-.html

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The ‘world’s most powerful tidal turbine’ starts to export power to the grid
Published Wed, Jul 28 202110:03 AM EDTUpdated 2 Hours Ago
Anmar Frangoul
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  • The news marks another major step forward for the U.K.’s nascent marine energy sector.
  • While interest in marine-based energy systems appears to be growing, the current footprint of the industry and its technologies remains small.

A tidal turbine weighing 680 metric tons and dubbed “the world’s most powerful” has started grid-connected power generation at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney, an archipelago located north of mainland Scotland.

The news marks another major step forward for the U.K.’s nascent marine energy sector.

In an announcement Wednesday, Scottish engineering firm Orbital Marine Power explained how its 2 megawatt O2 turbine had been anchored in a body of water called the Fall of Warness, with a subsea cable linking it to a local electricity network on land.

It’s expected that the turbine, which is 74 meters long, will “operate in the waters off Orkney for the next 15 years,” the company said, and have “the capacity to meet the annual electricity demand of around 2,000 UK homes.”
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The turbine is also set to send power to a land-based electrolyzer that will generate so-called green hydrogen. In a statement, Orbital Marine Power’s CEO, Andrew Scott, described Wednesday’s news as “a major milestone for the O2.”

Funding for the O2′s construction has come from public lenders via Abundance Investment. The Scottish government has also provided £3.4 million (around $4.72 million) of support through its Saltire Tidal Energy Challenge Fund.

Michael Matheson, the Scottish government’s Cabinet secretary for net zero, energy and transport, said his country was “ideally-placed to harness the enormous global market for marine energy.”

“The deployment of Orbital Marine Power’s O2, the world’s most powerful tidal turbine, is a proud moment for Scotland and a significant milestone in our journey to net zero,” he went on to add.

Looking to the future, Orbital Marine Power said it was “setting its sights” on the commercialization of its tech via the deployment of multi-megawatt arrays.

With miles of coastline, the U.K. as a whole is home to a number of projects related to marine energy.

In April, it was announced that a yearlong research project focusing on the potential of tidal, wave and floating wind technology had secured support from Marine-i, a program centered around innovation in areas such as marine energy.

The project will be based on the Isles of Scilly, an archipelago located off the southwest coast of England, and led by Isles of Scilly Community Venture, Planet A Energy and Waves4Power.

There’s also potential when it comes to rivers. Back in March, the Port of London Authority gave the go ahead for trials of tidal energy technology on a section of the River Thames, a move which could eventually help to decarbonize operations connected to the river.

While interest in marine-based energy systems appears to be growing, the current footprint of the industry and its technologies remains small.

Figures from Ocean Energy Europe show that only 260 kilowatts of tidal stream capacity was added in Europe last year, while just 200 kW of wave energy was installed.

By contrast, 2020 saw 14.7 gigawatts of wind energy capacity installed in Europe, according to industry body WindEurope.

#Power #Electricity #Tidal #Technology #Engineering #UK

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