May 8 2008
China: Blackouts Threaten without Power Plants Price/Cost Relief
“If power prices can’t be aligned with costs, then large-scale power shortages are inevitable by the end of the year,” said An Jun, vice director of the asset management department of Zhejiang Provincial Energy Group Company Ltd.
Cyprus: Cyprus and the spoils of peace
For a growing island country with 2 million tourists combined resources can be scarce. Long suffering from an energy shortage, power cuts particularly in the north can last days while the cost energy increases. It is doubtful whether Cypriot power stations will be equipped to cope with a rising population and with increasing development.
Honduras: Escasez de combustibles amenaza producción agrícola en Honduras
Honduran Farmers warned today that the shortage of fuel in a few days the start of the harvest will risk the country's agricultural production.
India: Mamata follows Gandhi, goes ‘powerless’
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday seized on Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi’s note of dissent against the ‘power situation’ in Bengal and announced she will switch off power at her home in Kalighat and also at the party’s headquarters in Topsia for two hours from Friday. Banerjee’s self-imposed darkness will last between 4 pm and 6 pm
India: Diesel shortage looms large as oilcos plan import cuts
Even as global oil prices continue to soar at over $120 per barrel, India continues to binge on fuel. And state-owned oil companies, IOC, HPCL and BPCL, are feeling the heat.
Faced with huge liquidity problems, they may be forced to cut down on diesel imports, and can thus no longer meet increasing demand.
Malaysia: Environmental groups don't want coal-fired plant in Sabah
He said as Sabah Electricity Sdn Bhd (SESB) had disclosed that the state’s east coast was in dire need of a new power generation plant to address the 30mW electricity supply shortfall, a natural gas facility should be the obvious choice.
Pakistan: Govt calls IPPs meeting to tackle power crisis
The coalition government has called a high level meeting of chief executives of all Independent Power Producers (IPPs) to seek their assistance in tackling the issue of power shortages prevailing in the country.
Pakistan: Unscheduled load shedding: Power out, trouble in
With Pindiites seeing no imminent relief from load shedding, which persists for over 10 hours a day, the Islamabad Electricity Supply Company (IESCO) has blamed the situation on power shortage.
Pakistan: Energy crisis has long been looming
There is a serious energy crisis in the country. It has a lot to do with the steeply spiraling price of oil in the international market. As Pakistan imports about 85% of the oil used, its economy has been seriously hit by the mounting oil import bill.
Pakistan: Patients , doctors brave long spells of loadshedding
Hundreds of poor patients visiting outpatients department of District Headquarters Hospital along with indoor patients who are admitted in various wards of the hospital have been suffering badly due to loadshedding for five to six hours daily.
Pakistan: Gilani to call cabinet meeting to discuss power shortage : Sherry
Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has decided to call an emergency meeting of the federal cabinet to discuss the issue of the electricity shortage in the country, Information Minister Sherry Rehman said on Wednesday.
Phillipines: Negros, Panay power shortage 'acute': DOE
Energy Secretary Angelo Reyes advised Negros and Panay officials to consider self-sufficiency in its power supply to avert the looming power crisis as the present power shortage problem has reached to an acute level.
Philippines: Buffer zone needed for serious power shortage
Energy Secretary Angelo Reyes said he met with Bacolod Bishop Vicente Navarra last night to explain the need for the Philippine National Oil Co.-Energy Development Corp. to enter the Mt. Kanlaon Natural Park buffer zone to tap more geothermal energy in order to meet a serious power shortage in Negros Occidental.
South Africa: Export surge blowing fuses
Statistics SA has found that, from January to March, electricity exports rose as much as 6.1percent year-on-year, while electricity distributed to the nine provinces fell by 1.7percent.
Yemen: Yemen seeks French help to build nuclear power plant
Yemen ... suffers from shortages in power production and its cities endure daily power outages.
The entire power production capacity of the country's two main power plants is approximately 900 MW, which serves only about half of the population.
