At one presser that was delayed because of a power shortage, the always vibrant M.
The agency that operates the state power grid cited colder than usual weather, maintenance problems and a power shortage across the Northwest.
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The Panamanian government has ordered schools to close and government offices to reduce their opening hours as the country suffers from a power shortage.
Politicians and bureaucrats also worry about what would happen if supplying countries refuse to sell Japan the electricity when there is a power shortage.
And, with a power shortage blacking out large parts of the country for two hours each day and unemployment rising sharply, there are plenty of other things to think about.
The threat of a power shortage in the country, and thus a curtailment of electricity needed for mining that tends to occur far under the ground, has been an ongoing issue for a few years now.
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This is a real power shortage.
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Power cuts are a common occurrence in Indian cities because of a fundamental shortage of power and an ageing grid.
But if mass hunger begins with a collapse in purchasing power, rather than a shortage of food, it does not take an airlift to prevent it.
India is faced with a crippling shortage of power to run its factories and light its homes.
An area of little doubt: The next few weeks will bring more difficulties to areas untouched by the earthquake and tsunami as the electric utility Tepco institutes rolling blackouts in the Kanto region around Tokyo to cope with a shortage of power.
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Mr. Srivastava said apart from production issues, there are also significant difficulties in moving coal from mines to power stations due to a shortage of rail wagons for hauling the dry fuel.
Two economic issues above all are fuelling public anger: price rises, especially for food, and power cuts, a consequence of a shortage of money to pay for imported fuel.
Eskom says that power exports are reduced when there is a shortage at home.
Ever since it bombed the Taliban from power in 2001, America has relied on air power in Afghanistan to make up for a shortage of troops.
India is facing a shortage of coal, which is widely blamed for frequent power outages in the country.
That way grid operators could, say, automatically lower the cost of transmitting power from a region with excess to capacity to one with a shortage, instead of letting the problem fester until the peaker plants turn on and phone calls and faxes fly.
It is not so much a shortage of money as it is that just about everyone in power is stealing everything they can put their hands on.
On Wednesday, Mr. Singh led a highly publicized meeting of 20 power-industry executives and several government officials to try to find ways to relieve a chronic shortage of affordable coal as well as clear other hurdles such as lengthy environmental clearances for plant construction that are crippling the power sector.
Backup generators fill the power gap, but the Japan Data Center Council recently warned that reliance on generators is causing a diesel fuel shortage.
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