August 20 2008
Canada (Alberta): Petro-Canada gas supply still coming up short
A gas shortage is causing more and more Petro-Canada stations in our city to run on empty.
The company's refinery has had problems with a machine and that has forced Petro-Canada to ration its fuel shipments.
El Salvador: De la crisis integral, contradicciones oficiales y despidos masivos
No sector of the Salvadoran population is foreign to the crisis overwhelming the country. The high cost and shortage of propane gas, high fuel prices, the hike in the cost of basic food basket and unemployment are, among others, the main determinants for concern and uncertainty that increase every day.
India: Diesel still short, LPG runs out too
The city continued to face a shortage of diesel for the fourth day on Tuesday with most fuel stations running out of stock or getting insufficient stock.
India: Rationalising coal prices
We are facing a double whammy here with coal imports for the power sector shooting up even as its international prices have zoomed about 125% in the past eight months or so. Coal is the mainstay of energy resource of our economy: Of the total installed power capacity, more than 50% is coal based and the power sector consumes about 75% of domestic coal production. Yet locally mined coal isn’t enough for our needs. Coal imports have shot up by almost 130%, an increase of almost 17 million tonnes between 2004-5 and 2006-7, and India’s appetite for coal is growing at a particularly fast clip.
Indonesia: Black Out in Timika
The electricity cut happened started on Tuesday morning.
Hormat Pakpahan, supervisor of the state power plant for Timika, said that the power cut was caused by a diesel shortage.
Indonesia: Shopping centers say no to forced power-saving plan
Shopping centers have rejected a planned govt regulation requiring them to switch to their own power generators for ten hours every week starting Aug. 25, citing burdensome extra costs.
The Indonesian Shopping Center Association (APPBI) is not ruling out the possibility of temporarily closing down its operations and staging a rally if the government goes ahead with its plan, chairman Stefanus Ridwan said Friday.
Papua New Guinea: Lae in PNG hit with power blackouts
Papua New Guinea’s second largest city, Lae, is being hit with power blackouts after the breakdown of two power generators led to the rationed supply of electricity to the city.
The power crisis is expected to last up to three weeks, as work is done to repair the broken generators.
South Africa: Get real - there is no power
Maroga initially spelt out the situation in a press release on June 12 in which he said, "Our operating reserve margin is such that Eskom cannot accommodate any new connections unless space is created on the system." On July 17, he described SA as being at a crossroads and stated that Eskom would not be able to get on top of SA's power supply crisis purely through building new power stations until about 2014.
South Africa: Power cut hits Joburg
POWER cuts in several areas of Johannesburg yesterday morning were not due to load shedding, but were caused by too great a strain on distribution equipment as a result of Eskom’s constant blackouts that occurred earlier this year.
A malfunction at City Power’s Kelvin substation caused outages in several areas including Highlands North, Halfway Gardens, Houghton, Dunkeld, Rosebank, Bez Valley, Killarney, Illovo, Atholl and Glenhazel.
