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Fixed rate for business haunts nation with power shortage 0 Verified

04:01 Aug 09, 2012

Korea's recent power crisis stems largely from a surge in consumption triggered by a record heat wave, but it can also be blamed on a decades-old rate...

South Korea

Pakistan Blackouts Power Frustration At Government 3 Verified

05:26 Aug 08, 2012

The country's government says it can't afford to keep up with increasing electricity demand, as more and more people crowd into urban centers. But discontent...

Pakistan

The lights are back on in India, but the future is dim 0 Verified

04:28 Aug 04, 2012

The lights are back on in India, just in time for citizens to read dire predictions about how much worse the country’s power crisis may soon become....

India

India Blackout Underscores Grid Vulnerabilities, Regulators Say 0 Verified

00:35 Aug 02, 2012

Blackouts that left half of India’s population without electricity show power networks are vulnerable, New Zealand and U.S. regulators said. A series...

India

Japan regains nuclear power as first reactor resumes operations 0 Verified

05:13 Jul 05, 2012

Japan ended two months without nuclear power on Thursday when the No. 3 unit at Kansai Electric Power Co's Ohi plant became the first reactor to resume...

Japan

Political turmoil, power outages short-circuit Nepal's hydropower potential 0 Verified

23:47 Jul 03, 2012

On a recent evening in Kathmandu, dinner was not served at Tara Gurung’s house. Gurung could not prepare dinner for her children because she did not...

Nepal

Japan begins power saving despite nuclear restart 0 Verified

19:41 Jul 02, 2012

Electricity saving targets came into effect in Japan on Monday as the country eyes a power shortfall over the hot summer, despite the weekend re-start...

Japan

Raja Pervaiz Ashraf can't end energy crisis: Shahbaz Shahbaz 0 Verified

00:39 Jun 25, 2012

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Saturday said the country was sinking into darkness due to bad policies of the federal government and he did not...

Pakistan

Argentina’s nationalization of YPF provoked by energy, cash shortage amid economic boom 0 Verified

23:14 Apr 22, 2012

Less than a decade ago, Argentina was an exporter of oil and natural gas. Now the government has to spend billions of dollars to import fuel. This dramatic...

Argentina

No light at tunnel’s end: Strapped for solutions, provinces to share shortage 0 Verified

00:31 Apr 10, 2012

The government appears to have only one solution to the crippling energy crisis that has threatened to shut down the entire economy: To actually shut...

Pakistan

Japan Closer to Restarting First Reactors Since Fukushima 0 Verified

00:09 Apr 10, 2012

Japan took another step toward restarting its first nuclear reactors since the Fukushima disaster, trying to avert electricity shortages this summer that...

Japan

Palace Keeps Energy Summit Venue Secret 0 Verified

18:38 Apr 08, 2012

The Palace on Sunday kept the venue of its April 13 Energy Summit secret and did not invite lawmakers, environmentalists and the businessmen who exposed...

Phillipines

Power crisis: 60,000-MW plans run on empty 3 Verified

06:15 Mar 13, 2012

Across the power sector, alarm bells are ringing, threatening to short-circuit the already unravelling growth story. Manufacturing has pulled down to...

India

N-plants key to power supply; Govt to embark on efforts to resume operations at reactors 0 Verified

04:47 Mar 13, 2012

Resuming operations of suspended nuclear reactors will be key to providing enough power to cover the demands of the entire nation this summer, observers...

Japan

Majority of Japanese oppose nuclear plant restarts: poll 0 Verified

01:58 Mar 13, 2012

A majority of Japanese oppose a restart of nuclear power plants currently shut for maintenance, a poll by the Asahi newspaper showed on Tuesday, reflecting...

Japan

Fuel crisis continues despite government’s claims of breakthrough 0 Verified

23:32 Jan 19, 2012

The gas, diesel and butane crisis in Egypt continued Thursday while hundreds of demonstrators blocked a number of roads in protest of the ongoing crisis,...

Egypt

China power shortage hits 2011 high of 30,000 MW; expected unchanged in 2012 0 Verified

18:29 Jan 18, 2012

In 2011, China's electricity shortages hit a high of 30,000 MW in January, followed by a second peak of 25,000 MW in July, according to a statement Tuesday...

China

Nepal fights power cuts with renewable energy 0 Verified

18:41 Dec 18, 2011

Touted as the country's biggest, a hybrid power generation system which uses solar and wind energy has been inaugurated in western Nepal to help residents...

Nepal

Power Shortage To Hit 40M Kilowatts 0 Verified

21:05 Nov 18, 2011

China’s power supply shortage is expected to be between 30 and 40 million kilowatts later this year and early next year, reports the 21st Century Business...

China

‘Zim power shortages to last four years’ 0 Verified

01:47 Nov 15, 2011

ZIMBABWE will continue to face power outages and load shedding for the next four years, the Zimbabwe Guardian has learnt. Power utility, Zesa Holdings,...

Zimbabwe