Electricity as the long pole in the development tent

ENERGY: "Hungry for Power: Much of the developing world places the need for electricity above the need for climate controls," by Emily Wax, Washington Post National Weekly Edition, 14-20 September 2009.

Per my recent WPR column: to grow a middle class is to grow electricity generation. India quadruples its middle class in two decades, but 500m Indians have no access to electricity.

You have electricity and you have the ability to create and sustain jobs. Otherwise, you're screwed.

As much as we focus climate change thinking on transportation, it's really electricity that matters far more, and it's becoming the great struggle for emerging markets in more ways than one.

Comments

[Petrer]

This just keeps on reminding me why I don't like Pinky Greenies...they are too wealthy to understand any basic economics....or they are simply shrewd people protecting their interests under a veil of "justice," you must understand my resentment, they are EVERYWHERE in California....even sometimes in the Central Valley and Mountain Regions! My rants aren't so hot airy...these interest groups have effectively retarded or even stopped much of the Nuclear power progress in the US...it is a shame.