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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.

Afghanistan: Fuel prices surge in Afghanistan after imports stop

The price of fuel has risen sharply in Afghanistan after major foreign suppliers stopped exports to the landlocked nation, an official said on Tuesday.

The rise has also pushed up prices of food and other commodities in one of the poorest countries of the world which is already struggling to cope with a virulent Taliban insurgency and faces poor harvests this year due to drought.

Argentina: Horticultores preocupados por los bajos precios y la escasez de combustibles

Low prices and shortages of fuel put at risk the profitability of the horticultural sector, as producers assured the Republic of Saint Lucia, Goya and Lavalle. The most urgent demand in the sector is that the nation is not involved with their pricing policies, as they believe that the activity should be governed by the law of supply and demand.

China: China is no leading light in energy efficiency

China's ballooning appetite for energy has helped push global prices higher for oil and coal, much of which is wasted.

Energy efficiency in China is just a fifth of U.S. levels. The government has put a priority on improving that by closing hundreds of small, coal-fired power plants and steel mills, raising fuel economy standards and consumption taxes on gas-guzzling cars, and pushing stores and apartment owners to replace incandescent bulbs with green ones.

Dominican Republic: Electricity’s dark edge has Dominicans on the brink

Dominican Republic’s electricity sector is “on the brink of darkness,” reports the financial publication Market Watch, quoting from a report by Fitch Ratings, while citizens and groups get edgy and announce protests

Dominican Republic: Miffed at blackouts , Dominican capital’s downtown stores to shutdown

As of 3 p.m. Tuesday Calle El Conde store owners will shut their doors to demand better electricity service, a situation they affirm has taken them to the brink of bankruptcy.

In a press conference Conde street and Colonial Zone retailers grouped in Asoconde said their agreement with the electricity distribuitor Edeeste has never been adhered to and on the contrary get blackouts as long as 10 hours daily.

India (Kashmir): Severe shortage of essential commodities in Jammu - JKNP

Jammu and Kashmir National Party (JKNP) on Monday alleged that the Jammu region was reeling under an "acute scarcity" of essential commodities with no measures in place to tide over the crisis.

"There is acute scarcity of essential commodities here triggered by bandhs and curfew. But Governor NN Vohra is yet to take any measures in this direction," JKNP President, Randeep Singh Parihar said to the reporters here.

India: Rains blamed for higher load-shedding

First, the Maharashtra State Electricity Generation Company (Mahagenco) blamed the lack of rains for high demand of power. Now it is blaming the rains for not being able to generate enough electricity.

Lebanon: Egypt to supply 200 MW of power to Lebanon

Egypt is to supply power-starved Lebanon with 200 megawatts (MW) of electricity to help it meet a drastic shortfall, Lebanon's Energy Minister Alan Taburian said on Monday.

"Egypt has an excess of 600 MW of electricity which will be divided as follows: 200 MW for Jordan, 200 for Syria and 200 for Lebanon," Taburian told reporters after talks in Beirut with his Egyptian counterpart, Hassan Yunes.

Northern Marianas: Power Plant 1 down to one power engine

Mechanical problems on three engines at Power Plant 1 left the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. with only one engine running at the plant, resulting in more outages on Saipan yesterday

In a statement, CUC said that Engines No. 2, 6 and 8 at Power Plant 1 experienced some mechanical problems, forcing the agency to expand the previously announced load shedding schedule to include other areas of the electrical grid not previously scheduled.

Vietnam: Solutions for Vietnam’s power industry

The electricity shortage in Vietnam has become critical and some people say the country, after 20 years of development, is still having as many power cuts as in the days of the state subsidy system.