Energy in Rakeo

Rakeo's energy sector is heavily tied to its import sector, with imported coal, oil, and gas making up 80% of energy use. Biofuels and renewables (hydro and wind turbines) form the remainder.

Energy sources

Coal

Nuclear

The Directory of Industrial Matters put in a contract for an engineering plan that would reduce national consumption of natural gas and coal in 1990. Three Rakeoian engineering firms responded, and of the three developed plans, nuclear was deemed the most feasible. A grant was then issued to Olino National University to begin construction of a test reactor to aid in training reactor technicians. The program was supposed to ultimately explore the possibility of building and operating a full scale nuclear reactor in Rakeo in order to phase out other outdated power plants. Third party observers concluded that the costs of modernizing existing plants was likely lower than both the anticipated building and operating costs of a nuclear reactor. The project, beyond practical economic issues, was also a geopolitical nonstarter. Most nations would not supply the necessary resources and expertise to a nation with as poor a reputation as Rakeo, and those who might have under other circumstances had reason to be wary.

Still, in 1996, a nuclear reactor was allegedly started along the Río de Olino. The reactor however, does not have many of the features that one would associate with a typical reactor, including a fuel rod cooling tank, and is nearby an existing coal storage pile used by barges, leading most experts to believe that it likely uses coal.