"Turkey and South Korea are discussing the joint construction of a nuclear power plant, the latest of recent efforts by Ankara to diversify its energy sources.
[In addition] state-run energy companies Turkish Petroleum Corp. and Botas are exploring investments in Canadian oil and gas fields.
Ankara is also ramping up oil exploration in the Black Sea, including in a partnership with Shell off the coast of Bulgaria."
"South Korea is considering providing additional energy vouchers to subsidise vulnerable households if rising global fuel prices in the wake of the Middle East crisis push up electricity costs.
Asia's fourth-largest economy is also preparing to ​boost nuclear and coal-fired power generation in the event that oil prices remain high and ​liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies are disrupted."
"Work-from-home orders came back in some countries after years of companies trying to coax workers back to offices after the pandemic, with Vietnam and Thailand reportedly getting employees to work remotely."
I don't know why the article calls this rational strategy "quirky".
By the way: what you hear about now is the reaction of *governments* to the oil price shock.
You will not hear about families - potentially millions - huddling around their kitchen table to see if the family finances allow for buying or leasing rooftop solar -- until one day it becomes a "surprise" story.
This is what happened in Pakistan, which went from "from an inconsequential solar market to the sixth-largest in the world."
See this post and others in the thread:
@CelloMomOnCars This is a theme that plays out over and over, it recently informed policymaking here in Puerto Rico, too: Public utilities perpetuate their fossil fuel based electrical generation at the same time as more-affordable solar equipment becomes available. Those with capital access replace their grid-dependency with rooftop solar, leaving the utility to recover fossil fuel capital investment from an ever-decreasing pool of ever-less-wealthy grid-dependent power users -- a utility "death spiral".
Here in Puerto Rico, the public service commission, under the scrutiny of a congressionally imposed "financial oversight board", has been stuck between a rock and a hard place. They have to take fiscally responsible decisions and they have to avoid the death spiral mode. The vested interests in the traditional grid power delivery systems are having a very difficult time accepting the need to abandon their old power generation and delivery model. The same as everywhere, perhaps.
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