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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.

China: China urges more power conservation amid shortage

China's central government, grappling with the country's worst electric power shortage in years, on Saturday ordered local authorities around the country to work harder to conserve energy.

"Fully understand the importance and urgency of conserving oil and electric power," the State Council, or cabinet, said in notice to the administrations of provinces and big cities.

Ecuador: La Amazonia, sin combustible

For three months the aircraft that fly to indigenous peoples, located in the provinces of Morona Santiago and Pastaza, have had no fuel supply, with the result that food and emergency patient care are compromised.

India: Poor monsoon causes energy shortage

With the monsoon turning out to be poor in various parts of the country, including South India and Central-West India, the country is faced with an energy shortage of 10 per cent and a peak demand power shortage of around 12.5 per cent. This contradicts the stand of some States that they were facing massive shortage from State and central utilities.

According to data available till July 31 from the National Power Monitoring Centre of the Power Ministry, the top five States facing shortage were Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.

India (Kashmir): Fuel stocks depleting in Valley

The economic blockade of Kashmir is taking its toll on the essential supplies with fuel stocks depleting fast in the Valley.
Talking to Greater Kashmir officials of different oil corporations operating in the Valley said no supplies have been received from outside for the past three days. “We have been supplying fuel to the local pump stations here out of the existing stocks.

India: Coal, crude oil, electricity Vidarbha Reels Under Shortage Of All Three

People of Maharashtra, especially Vidarbha, have been caught in a vicious circle involving coal, crude and power cuts. Power companies are complaining of inconsistent and good quality coal- the raw material needed to generate electricity - being delivered to them. Transport of coal has taken a hit due to the diesel crunch which stems from the high crude prices.

India: Power crisis: State gets breather

The Centre has directed NTPC not to shut down the second unit of Simhadri thermal station till August 10 for maintenance so that Andhra Pradesh can be bailed out of the acute power crisis following the tripping of unit one of the Simhadri plant on Thursday night leading to a loss of 500 MW power.

According to officials, round-the-clock repair works were on to restore operations at the tripped thermal unit.

Nigeria: Oil - Why the Crisis in the Niger Delta Matters to the World

Nigeria derives some 95 percent of its foreign earnings from the oil industry. Until very recently, Nigeria was the largest oil producer in Africa and the sixth largest in the world. Petroleum accounts for 40 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, while the vast majority of the country’s oil production, onshore and offshore, comes from the Niger Delta region.