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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.

Argentina: Falta gasoil y sobra fastidio

Luis Malchiodi argued that the authorities of the Nation distill "indifference" and added that over the weekend lake lacked super diesel and naphtha in many establishments in La Plata, the Atlantic coast and other cities.

China: China Grid Prioritizes Olympic Supplies as Power Shortage Worsens Fivefold

State Grid Corp. of China, distributor of electricity in 26 provinces, said it is prioritizing supplies to the Beijing Olympic Games after the nation's power shortfall increased five fold.

The deficit has reached 17 gigawatts from the year earlier in the areas covered by State Grid's network, the Beijing-based utility said in a statement on its Web site today. The situation may worsen should coal supplies fail to improve, it said.

Dominican Republic: Distribuidores de gas amenazan con paralizar la venta, si el ...

Companies importing liquefied gas (LPG) have threatened to stop dispatching fuel in a week if the Government does not pay more than four billion pesos they owe to this sector.

India: Tamil Nadu fuel crisis spells losses for fishermen, rice growers

Tamil Nadu’s transporters, fishermen, cold storage operators and vegetable and food grain growers could lose at least Rs.250 million a day because of an acute diesel crisis triggered by an unending electricity shortage.

While green and dry grocers said their cumulative losses would cross at least Rs.100 million, transporters pointed to bigger shortfalls in income.

India: South Goa towns reel under fuel shortage

Margao struggled through a second day without adequate fuel supply on Monday with serpentine queues forming outside most refill stations. A few pumps even shut down for want of stocks.

Police had a hard time controlling traffic near refill stations as large numbers of two- and four-wheelers spilled onto busy roads.

Kyrgyzstan: Electricity blackouts to start from August 21 in Bishkek

The electricity restriction is a saving measure to provide Kyrgyzstanis with enough electricity in winter time as in June the customers of the Severelectro Company raised limits by 55mln kW/h.

Malaysia: No choice but load shedding

Sabah Electricity Sdn Bhd (SESB) resorted to load shedding on Monday due to reduced generating capacity of 100MW, thereby affecting several parts of the State.

According to SESB Managing Director Baharin Din, the exercise was necessary due to the faults at the Patau-Patau generating station and also the Tenom-Pangi Hydro Station.

Malaysia: SESB says again: Coal the only option

ESB maintains that coal is the only option Sabah has to address the East Coast power deficiency.

"It is very clear we don't have much choice in the East Coast," SESB Managing Director Baharin bin Din said. "Coal is not available in the East Coast but it can be made available.

Nigeria: Kerosene crisis

As kerosene scarcity bites harder in the country, consumers of the product are daily resorting to alternative means in meeting their energy needs. The price of the product, which rose sharply to N85 per litre at filling stations three months ago has risen further. A litre of the product now sells for between N120 to N150 across the country, contrary to the Federal Government’s fixed price of N50 per litre.

Pakistan: Many unable to watch history unfold

People living in the areas where load shedding is scheduled at 1pm or 2pm expressed anger with the Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) on Monday, as the lack of electricity prevented them from seeing to see President Pervez Musharraf announce his resignation.

Pakistan: Shortage of oil products feared

The country is feared to face a severe dearth of petroleum products, particularly diesel, which may put a brake on the slow-moving wheel of economy, as oil marketing companies have not enough liquidity to place orders for import of petroleum products, The News has learnt.

Philippines: WESM key to averting Visayas power shortage

The chambers of commerce in the Visayas are pushing for the commercial operations of the electricity spot market here to prevent a power shortage starting late this year.

Representatives of the 16 Visayas chambers, who gathered here on Friday last week for the 17th Visayas Area Business Conference, passed a resolution asking President Gloria M. Arroyo to order the start of operation of the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) in the Visayas.

Yemen: Gas and diesel crisis strikes again

The crisis witnessed by the domestic markets for the past four days with the lack of domestic gas was the result of a technical malfunction in one of Safer refinery laboratories. “This ultimately led to a decrease in gas volumes for the domestic market”, said Najeb Al-Awaj, Deputy Executive Director General of the Yemen Gas Company.