Portable power stations in the test: Electricity for a cottage for up to a week without mains power Tests 5.9. 17:15
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On August 29th, shortly before midnight, the Graz fire brigade was called to a gas leak in an apartment in the 4th district. When the fire brigade arrived, the two residents could not give a cause, only that they had heard a hissing noise and were now suffering from shortness of breath. After receiving first aid from the fire brigade, the two people were handed over to the emergency services, who took them to a hospital for medical treatment.
While searching for the cause of the gas leak, a fire brigade team searched the apartment wearing heavy breathing apparatus and found an e-scooter whose batteries had begun to decompose. This decomposition process led to the battery heating up and the emission of white, flammable and toxic gases.
During this investigation, three cats were found unharmed and temporarily removed from the apartment.
The e-scooter was subsequently taken outside and cooled in a water basin; the apartment was ventilated with a high-pressure fan from the fire department.
Thunderstorms may cause energy outages.
It is thundering in the present day.
Based on Foreca, extreme and violent thunderstorms are growing in several elements of Finland. Meteorologist Markus Mäntykannas factors out in a climate weblog that thunderstorms are accompanied by robust wind gusts that may domestically trigger injury.
– There’s a potential for a number of thousand lightning strikes within the space of Finland, writes Foreca’s climate weblog.
Thunderstorms may cause brief and localized energy outages. Thunderstorms may trigger minor wind injury and knock down particular person bushes.
Massive hail
There’s a probability of thunder already within the morning in coastal areas. As well as, in line with the forecast, native heavy rains are anticipated in Lapland and on the south and southwest coast.
Throughout Tuesday, thunder is feasible nearly in all places in Finland. For instance, within the southern and central elements of the nation and in Southern Lapland, you need to be ready for violent thunderstorms and huge hailstones, which may be greater than two centimeters in diameter.
– Particularly within the southern and central elements of the nation, the parameter predicting the likelihood of hail is excessive, Mäntykannas writes.
The warning map glows
The Finnish Meteorological Institute’s warning map glows yellow with thunderstorm warnings.
Thunderstorm warnings are issued for nearly the complete nation, except for the southernmost and southwesternmost Finland and Northern Lapland.
Thunderstorms will develop within the afternoon and night, in reference to which there might be robust thunderstorms. The wind velocity reaches greater than 15 meters per second.
Violent thunderstorms are additionally being warned in maritime areas in Southeastern Finland. Climate situations may be harmful for yachts and small craft.
A robust wind is blowing within the western a part of the Gulf of Finland and the northern a part of the Pärämere. The wind between the west and south-west reaches 12 meters per second within the afternoon. The climate is doubtlessly harmful for pleasure boats.
A thunderstorm warning is in impact on the mainland on Tuesday from noon, extra exactly between 12:00 and 21:00. Based on Foreca, thunderstorm improvement should proceed domestically properly into Tuesday night.
Warnings are in impact in these areas
Kanta-Häme
Päijät-Häme
Kymenlaakso
South Karelia
Pirkanmaa
middle-Finland
Southern Savo
Northern Savo
North Karelia
South Ostrobothnia
Central Ostrobothnia
Northern Ostrobothnia
Resounds
Simo
Ranua
Place
we’ve got
Keminmaa
Tornio
Ylitornio
Tervola
Pello
Rovaniemi
Kemijärvi
Mass
Saimaa
Violent thunderstorms are forecast for nearly the complete nation. Tuomas Gustafsson
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The accident happened in Bargi in northern Italy near Bologna.
At least three people have died and several others have been injured in an explosion at a hydroelectric plant in Italy, Reuters and AFP report. Several people are still missing.
The accident happened in northern Italy in Bargi, located between Florence and Bologna, on Lake Suviana, on Tuesday around 16:00 Finnish time.
According to the energy company Enel, the fire started in the power plant’s transformer. According to the company, the dam basin has not been damaged.
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Iltalehti’s updated table shows the prevailing price of stock exchange electricity.
Iltalehti’s service enables you to track the price of electricity. The accompanying graph found in this story always shows 48-hour price data. The next day’s hourly prices are updated on the graph around 2 pm or a little after, when the graph shows the current day’s and the next day’s hourly prices. After midnight, before the next day’s prices are known, the graph shows the hourly prices of the previous day and the current day.
You can see the price of any hour on the graph. The graph also separately shows the price of the hour that is currently running, as well as the prices of the known future hourly prices, including the cheapest and most expensive hourly prices.
In the graph, the electricity value-added tax (24%) is taken into account in the price, but of course the electricity company’s margin, a possible fixed monthly fee and the electricity transfer fee are added to the bill paid by consumers. These vary from contract to contract.
In addition to this story, the graph will be used in other Iltalehti stories related to the price of electricity. This article will always be published daily in the afternoons when the next day’s hourly prices have been updated. This way you can follow the electricity price development daily on Iltalehti’s website.
The price of electricity is currently a constant topic of conversation in Finland. Tiina Somerpuro
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The Bataani power plant was completed in 1984, but it was not put into operation. Now, efforts are being made to get rid of fossil fuels everywhere, and the 40-year-old plant is becoming attractive.
Old and shabby. The Bataan nuclear power plant in the Philippines was completed in 1984, but it was never started. The facade of the building looks a bit shabby. This picture is also more than seven years old, from autumn 2016. Mark R. Cristino / EPA
The Philippines may turn on a nuclear power plant that was completed 40 years ago but has been sitting cold since its completion.
The possible commissioning of the 621 megawatt power plant in Bataan was reported two years ago in the spring by, among others, the news agency Reuters and the magazine World Nuclear News. At the end of February 2022, then President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte signed a new energy policy executive order with which the country aims to become independent from fossil fuels.
In Finland, the matter has not been reported since Yle reported in 2016 about the preliminary political discussion regarding the Bataan power plant.
With the order signed by Duterte, the talk and speculation turned into reality, at least to some degree. However, the order does not directly mean the commissioning of the Bataan power plant. It is a more general change of direction in the Philippines’ energy policy, and as part of this project, it is also being investigated whether the existing power plant can be commissioned.
Currently, the Philippines has no operating nuclear power plants at all.
If it is decided to start the Bataan facility, the renovation work will cost about 2-3 billion dollars, the US Department of Energy estimates in the fall of 2022, according to the World Nuclear Association.
At the moment, the Philippines’ main partner in the nuclear power sector seems to be the United States, because in the fall of 2023 the Philippines agreed with the United States on significant nuclear technology cooperation. The agreement covers not only nuclear materials, but also technological assistance for the development of so-called small reactors (smr).
Never launched. Photo of the reactor hall of the Bataan power plant. Mark R. Cristino / EPA
In 2017, that is, before the latest decisions, the South Korean energy company Kepco offered the renovation slightly cheaper than the American estimate. According to a BBC news report last spring, the Koreans proposed a price tag of 1.5 billion dollars. Also Russian Rosatom has tried to join the patterns.
The premises of the Bataan power plant are dilapidated and shabby, at least partially, the BBC reports. On the other hand, according to WNA, the facility would have been maintained at least to some extent.
The power plant gets its name from the peninsula called Bataan, which separates Manila Bay from the upper part of the South China Sea. The power plant is located on the west coast of the peninsula, i.e. by the South China Sea.
Old technology. This is what the control room of the Bataan power plant looks like. Mark R. Cristino / EPA
About 60 kilometers east of the power plant is Manila, the capital of the Philippines, with 25 million people living in its urban area. The Bataan Peninsula and the metropolitan area of Manila are both part of Luzon, the largest island of the Philippine archipelago.
This is how the fiasco was born
What solution the Philippines ends up with the Bataan power plant remains to be seen, both in terms of technological possibilities and politics. According to both Yle and the BBC, many are vocally opposed to the commissioning of the old power plant, but on the other hand, polls have shown that around 60 percent of the residents are in favor of nuclear power.
According to some estimates, the outcome may also be affected by the fact that in 2022 the president-elect of the Philippines Ferdinand Bongbong Marcos is the dictator of the country’s former president, who ruled at the end of the Cold War Ferdinand Marcosin son. The nuclear power project is known to be important to Marcos the elder.
Near the big city. A picture of Manila, the capital of the Philippines, in the fall of 2022. Richmond Chi (CC-BY-SA)
American Westinghousen the Bataan power plant, based on pressurized water reactor technology, was built between 1976 and 1984 at a cost of about 2.4 billion dollars at the time, or about nine billion dollars today. Marcos Sr.’s decision to invest in nuclear power was motivated by the 1973 oil crisis.
However, fuel was never loaded into the power plant because the Filipinos had begun to fear the danger of earthquakes. The Philippine archipelago, located on the ring of fire in the Pacific Ocean, is volcanic and seismically very active, as is Japan, located further north on the same ring.
The fears were brought to the surface even before the completion of the power plant in 1979, in which it was found that the power plant was located almost on top of the fault line of the local earth’s crust. The survey was conducted in the United States after the accident at the Three Mile Island power plant.
When in the spring of 1986 Marcos Sr. was ousted from power and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded in the Soviet Union, the road to the Bataan power plant was paved. The newly elected president Maria Corazon Aquino decided to abandon the nuclear power project once and for all, WNA writes.
The corruption scandals related to the construction of the power plant that were revealed at the end of the 1980s sank the project even deeper into the mire, as people no longer trusted the quality of the construction.
The Bataani power plant is one of the two nuclear power plants in the world that have been completed but left unused. The second is the Zwentendorf power plant in Austria, which was completed in 1978. Tekniikka&Talous reported on Zwentendorf on March 12.
This news was originally published In Tekniikka&Talous magazine.
Protests. Although polls show that 60% of Filipinos support nuclear power, others oppose it. These demonstrations were filmed in 2016 in connection with the Asian countries’ international political nuclear conference. Mark R. Cristino / EPA
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