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Borneo Post
10 hours ago
- General
- Borneo Post
Six longhouses in rural Katibas now get 24-hour power supply, thanks to RES
Lidam, flanked by Harry (standing, fifth left) and Ambrose, joins others in a group photo with the villagers of Rumah Johnny at Sungai Tekalit in Katibas. KAPIT (July 29): The villagers of six longhouses at Sungai Tekalit in Katibas now enjoy 24-hour electricity supply, thanks to the Rural Electrification Scheme (RES). Under Phase III of the scheme, the people of Rumah Johnny, Rumah Dunggo, Rumah Lumpong, Rumah Bahrain, Rumah Ensam and Rumah Ebin are now benefitting from reliable power that has improved their daily lives. The RES sets out to extend the existing supply from Sarawak Power Grid to the 'un-electrified' areas, giving access to electricity for rural households and other facilities such as rural schools and rural clinics. 'This facility (RES) has brought significant changes to the daily lives of these longhouse residents in Tekalit. 'Now, they don't have to worry about cooking food like meat, fish and vegetables immediately, as these can be kept fresh in the fridge over a longer period of time. 'More importantly, however, the stable electricity supply really benefit the fields of education, health and local economy. 'Students can now access online learning, and our healthcare workers can utilise medical equipment to the fullest. 'This is an important step in rural development,' said Katibas assemblyman Lidam Assan in announcing the readiness of RES Phase III at Rumah Johny last weekend. On another matter, he called upon the village security and development committee (JKKK) of Rumah Johnny to engage with the local Fire and Rescue (Bomba) statin in programmes meant to raise public awareness of longhouse fire safety. 'Seek advice on setting up your own Volunteer Firefighting Squad,' he added. Later, the assemblyman announced a government grant for JKKK Rumah Johnny to plan and hold activities meant for the benefit of the longhouse folks. Among those present at the session were the Ambrose Abong Bugek, the political secretary to federal Works Minister; Watson Awan Jalai, a political secretary to the Sarawak Premier; Song District officer Harry Bruce Edwin; local community leaders Temenggong Jamit Untam, Temenggong Toh Tze Hua, Pemanca Lim Eng Hock and Penghulu John Kho Chong Bee; as well as Sarawak Energy Bhd divisional engineer Mariana Sylvester. electricity supply Lidam Assan longhouses rural electrification scheme
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
RPC (NYSE:RES) Will Pay A Dividend Of $0.04
RPC, Inc.'s (NYSE:RES) investors are due to receive a payment of $0.04 per share on 10th of September. This makes the dividend yield 3.3%, which will augment investor returns quite nicely. This technology could replace computers: discover the 20 stocks are working to make quantum computing a reality. RPC's Future Dividend Projections Appear Well Covered By Earnings Impressive dividend yields are good, but this doesn't matter much if the payments can't be sustained. Based on the last payment, RPC was quite comfortably earning enough to cover the dividend. This indicates that a lot of the earnings are being reinvested into the business, with the aim of fueling growth. Looking forward, earnings per share is forecast to rise by 104.0% over the next year. If the dividend continues on this path, the payout ratio could be 30% by next year, which we think can be pretty sustainable going forward. Check out our latest analysis for RPC Dividend Volatility While the company has been paying a dividend for a long time, it has cut the dividend at least once in the last 10 years. The dividend has gone from an annual total of $0.42 in 2015 to the most recent total annual payment of $0.16. The dividend has shrunk at around 9.2% a year during that period. Declining dividends isn't generally what we look for as they can indicate that the company is running into some challenges. The Dividend Looks Likely To Grow With a relatively unstable dividend, and a poor history of shrinking dividends, it's even more important to see if EPS is growing. RPC has impressed us by growing EPS at 50% per year over the past five years. RPC is clearly able to grow rapidly while still returning cash to shareholders, positioning it to become a strong dividend payer in the future. We Really Like RPC's Dividend In summary, it is good to see that the dividend is staying consistent, and we don't think there is any reason to suspect this might change over the medium term. The company is easily earning enough to cover its dividend payments and it is great to see that these earnings are being translated into cash flow. All in all, this checks a lot of the boxes we look for when choosing an income stock. Investors generally tend to favour companies with a consistent, stable dividend policy as opposed to those operating an irregular one. However, there are other things to consider for investors when analysing stock performance. As an example, we've identified 2 warning signs for RPC that you should be aware of before investing. If you are a dividend investor, you might also want to look at our curated list of high yield dividend stocks. Have feedback on this article? Concerned about the content? Get in touch with us directly. Alternatively, email editorial-team (at) article by Simply Wall St is general in nature. We provide commentary based on historical data and analyst forecasts only using an unbiased methodology and our articles are not intended to be financial advice. It does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any stock, and does not take account of your objectives, or your financial situation. We aim to bring you long-term focused analysis driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis may not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements or qualitative material. Simply Wall St has no position in any stocks mentioned. Sign in to access your portfolio
Business Insider
15-07-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
RPC, Inc. initiated with an Underweight at Piper Sandler
Piper Sandler analyst Derek Podhaizer initiated coverage of RPC, Inc. (RES) with an Underweight rating and $5 price target Piper rolled out coverage of 13 Smid-cap oilfield services stocks. The firm sees a challenging backdrop for U.S. land, saying oil prices remain below $70 per barrel due to tariffs and production hikes. The analyst expects a 'persistent negative rate-of-change envinrment' for the rest of 2025 with the U.S. land rig count falling to 500 from 522 today. This will create pressure on frac activity and proppant pricing, the analyst tells investors in a research note. Elevate Your Investing Strategy: Take advantage of TipRanks Premium at 50% off! Unlock powerful investing tools, advanced data, and expert analyst insights to help you invest with confidence. Make smarter investment decisions with TipRanks' Smart Investor Picks, delivered to your inbox every week.
The Spinoff
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Spinoff
Imagining a new web aesthetic where every platform doesn't look exactly the same
First platforms forced us all into their stylised boxes. Now they've made all the boxes look and feel the same. How do we get the best of the old internet back? Lately I've been thinking about what being online looks like. The actual look of it. The aesthetic. As I continue to think and write and talk about escaping walled gardens, I've begun to notice more and more the bricks in those walls. Or the kind of concrete, the colours of the barbed wire, whatever metaphor works in your head. Take a look at this photo quickly and tell me what app this: Is this Snapchat? Maybe the border colours in the screenshot tipped you off – but this is how Instagram shows you its app on its own website. Look like the fave photo sharing site you remember? Let's go again. Which app is this: Is this TikTok? This is Spotify. Try finding the music you love amid its current front page onslaught of video, podcasts, video podcasts, and audiobooks – I dare you. Then talk to a parent of young kids who has carefully controlled their access to YouTube, only to find that the innocent 'music app' is now feeding them the exact same dross. One more: Is this X, the everything app? This is the one that set me off, actually. This is Substack's app, jam-packed with every dark pattern I've come to hate about the current era. If you haven't done this lately, let me show you what trying to sign up to receive a free email newsletter is like now: Ugh, I just needed to get that off my chest, sorry. Back to the look of it all, though. The independent web never had a single coherent aesthetic, obviously, because everyone made it look like whatever they wanted it to. It was constrained only by what the html/css could do. And so it was individual, chaotic, often weird and it was always personal. It was the sewing and embroidery site that didn't close its tags and the Time Cube guy. If you're too young to have experienced this first hand, hit 'surprise me' on this page and get shown web1.0 sites that are still around (Wiby is a search engine of the early web). Now we think about this era as a pixelly time of flashing 'under construction' gifs and hit counters and tiled backgrounds. But the core components were more 'here is what I care about' and 'here are some other things you might be interested in'. The early platforms started to consolidate us together, but they were still deeply personalisable. MySpace and Geocities pages were as eclectic as the self-built ones. Early Tumblr was all about your template, and let you muck around in the css yourself to make it look exactly the way you wanted. Early subreddits were styled to the hilt, and browser extensions like RES let you further make your experience exactly your own. Then sometime around the mid 2010s it started to change, and platforms started to coalesce around clean, uniform interfaces. We saw more template-driven content structures (profile grids, feeds, carousels). Everything had to conform to brand guidelines and UI patterns, and as a consequence it was suddenly homogenised – even wildly different creators' pages looked the same. You can point to various reasons for this – Google acquired Blogspot, Yahoo! acquired Tumblr, Pinterest moved into its shopping-first era, everything became an app. To begin with these platforms forced us all into their stylised boxes, and now, as you can see above, they've made all the boxes look and feel the same. So if web aesthetic = the messy, expressive look of the open internet, and platform aesthetic = the polished, standardised design of closed ecosystems, both aesthetics say a lot about power, creativity, and who controls the experience. That's probably uncontroversial. What I want to think about now, though, is what the new web aesthetic is. As we start to focus on building the good internet, it's cute and fun to nod to the retro stylings of the web1.0 era – reinventing webrings and blogrolls and giving everything an anti-Squarespace feel. But whatever is next shouldn't be retro. It should be its own thing. Over the last few months in my newsletter I've been talking about exploration, and gardens, and archiving – how to bring discovery back when search has been killed by AI slop and Google tells you to eat rocks. I'm not a designer, so I'm not about to tell you anything about layouts or typefaces or colour palettes. But here's what I think can be the core of the next era of the web. I think the new web aesthetic is about getting active again. Platforms encourage passivity. They want us to stay still and scrolling, looking at what the algo wants to show us. Like, swipe, repeat. But the new web aesthetic is non-linear. It encourages you to move from one site to another, to dive down rabbit holes, and crucially, to continue sharing what you find. Sites that reflect a person's process, not just their conclusions. It's working with the garage door up. Recently I was ranting to a friend about a thinkfluencer who annoys me, because he tends to gather together the ideas of others and publish what he sees as the definitive essay on a topic without crediting any of the other thinking that's fed into it. By contrast, the new web aesthetic is link-heavy. It constantly references out to other spaces, to past work and to related ideas. It sees the web as an ongoing conversation, not a feed. You're encouraged to leave the page. Platform aesthetic is ephemeral. We all know the experience of going to show someone a post, only to find the feed has refreshed and the meme has vanished, and you're never going to find it again. Older content disappears from view by design. The new web aesthetic is persistent and browsable archives (that don't rot!). Content is meant to be discovered over time, not posted once and done. The new web aesthetic returns agency to the explorer. You decide what's interesting. You wander, and as a consequence you stay with things longer. Anne-Helen Peterson wrote last week about the demise of Pocket (ironically on Substack): 'Welp, I read the internet,' he'd sometimes tell me around 10 am. 'Got anything else for me?' I always did, because I also read the internet in that way. I used a combination of Google Reader, favourite websites I'd refresh multiple times daily (The Hairpin, The Toast, Grantland, Jezebel, Go Fug Yourself), and followed links from those sites to other stuff the editors thought worth my time… I've come to think of these years as the halcyon days of the post-recession internet, a sort of second golden digital age. It was before so many publications' fate became inextricable from social media, so even though everyone over at Gawker Media was still being badgered by the traffic leaderboard in their offices, the idea of the homepage still held power. People navigated to your site because they liked your site and knew they found good stuff on your site; then they read stuff there. Not just scrolled, but read. The new web aesthetic wants to make us readers again. And not whatever this is. My own site design doesn't embody all of this yet, but it does reflect the colourful, chaotic, joy-filled nature of the fandom spaces I love. You can find everything I've written or talked about there. You can find my weird little side projects. And through this newsletter you can follow my thought processes and dive down the rabbitholes with me. The next iteration, for me, is surfacing more of this. Making it more discoverable. The map may not be the territory, but it's a good place to start.
Euronews
04-07-2025
- Business
- Euronews
Polish renewables generate more electricity than coal for first month
In June 2025, all renewable energy sources (RES) in Poland produced 44.1 per cent of electricity, while coal and lignite plants produced 43.7 per cent, according to preliminary estimates from the think tank Energy Forum. This would mean that, for the first time ever, renewables provided more energy than coal. In the entire second quarter, coal's share in Poland's energy mix was 45.2 per cent, so it was the first quarter in the history of the Polish energy sector when less than half of the energy produced came from this source. Still, the majority of energy in Poland comes from fossil fuels, as natural gas-fired power plants are responsible for the vast majority of the remaining several per cent of the energy mix. This situation is shifting too, however. Figures from the Instrat Foundation show that on 29 June the share of emission-free sources was 49.5 per cent. RES in Poland: Favourable weather, unfavourable regulations "This is mainly due to generation from photovoltaic [solar] sources, whose installed capacity increased by 24 per cent compared to the previous year, reaching 23 GW," explains Dr Maria Niewierko from the Energy Forum (Forum Energii). Just five years ago there were only 2 GW of PV installations in Poland. "In addition, June was exceptionally windy, resulting in double the wind power generation compared to a year ago." The beginning of July brought a slight decrease in the share of RES in power generation, to approximately 33-34 per cent. Industry representatives caution, however, that more significant decreases are to be expected in winter as a result of significantly lower efficiency of solar installations. A key challenge for Poland is the removal of barriers delaying the energy transition. "The development of onshore wind energy, which was virtually completely halted by the government in 2016 and only two years ago started to liberalise these regulations, is still very limited," Dr Niewierko adds. "The bill that is supposed to unlock the development of this cheapest technology for Poland, after passing through the Senate, is awaiting the signature of the president, who is showing less favour for this solution. The project for the first nuclear power plant is also being delayed, with the original plan being to launch the unit in 2033, but now there is talk of 2036." "The biggest challenge remains the outdated infrastructure. Transmission grids need to be upgraded and the lack of sufficient energy storage prevents full use of peak generation," says Sebastian Skolimowski of PAD RES, a RES power plant design company. "In order to fully unlock the potential of RES, investments in grid expansion and digitalisation, the construction of storage facilities, and stable regulations favouring the development of wind farms are required." Poland is one of the world's most polluting economies Although the share of fossil fuels in the production of electricity in Poland is falling, representatives of the Energy Forum point out that this is not the case for the entire economy. Over the past 20 years, since Poland's accession to the EU, Poland has seen two opposing trends - coal consumption has fallen by 38 per cent, while oil consumption has increased by 41 per cent and natural gas by 43 per cent. "Despite being completely independent of raw materials from Russia, the fossil fuel import bill is still gigantic. In 2024, Poland paid as much as PLN 112 billion for them," says Kacper Kwidziński, analyst at Energy Forum. "At the same time, Poland's overall dependence on imports of energy carriers is growing - in a decade it has increased from 29 per cent to 45 per cent. The greatest dependence for years has been on crude oil, almost 97 per cent of which comes from abroad," he adds. "This shows that despite the partial progress of the energy transition, the Polish economy still relies heavily on imported fuels and we are paying a high price for this dependence." The report Energy Transition of Poland 2025shows that Poland still ranks among the world's most emitting economies both per unit of GDP and energy consumption. Only Kuwait, South Africa, Kazakhstan and China are worse than Poland in terms of emissions.
