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11 13th, 2008| 
Kamal Obeid, a Hamas official at of the power plant, said fuel was running out and the facility would be shut down completely later Thursday. The move cuts off electricity to much of the city of 300,000.
Some energy experts asked by BBC News warn the UK could face an unacceptable risk of major blackouts in less than 10 years unless policy is improved.
They said the government has dithered for too long over policies vital to energy security and climate security.
But they added that forecasts of an imminent power crisis were far-fetched.
The possible energy gap is being created because of the impending closure before 2015 of nine of our major coal and oil-powered plants.
SANTIAGO.- The protests against the power grid’s collapse spread to different towns in Cibao, whose inhabitants demand an end to the blackouts.
The north region’s service is uncertain despite the resumed operation at dawn yesterday of Puerto Plata’s San Felipe power plant, with 160 megawatts.
Yesterday the blackouts of up to 20 hours sparked violent street protests in the sectors Beijing, Los Ciruelitos, Gurabo, Espaillat, Dolores, and Los Platanitos, among others, during which 10 youngsters were detained,.
Other demonstrators blocked the Santiago-Licey highway setting tires afire, hurling stones and rubbish.
In Bayaguana (east), Police agents killed the athlete Eliezer de la Cruz, 17, during the protests, which also took place in La Romana (east).
The government is ultimately to blame for widespread riots in response to power cuts and escalating electricity bills
For the past year the public in Pakistan has been incensed by daily power cuts. The past month saw unprecedented black-outs of 12 hours. Then, like a back-hand in the dark, business owners and working class alike have been slapped with a bill charging them three times the usual monthly charge for electricity. The official explanation for the price hike is that energy supply companies have began charging higher tariffs earlier than planned. Lahore Electric Supply Company officials anonymously told a reporter from Urdu daily paper Jang that they were given revenue targets to reach.
SAN FELIX, Venezuela (Reuters) – Despite having some of the world’s largest energy reserves, Venezuela is increasingly struggling to maintain basic electrical service, a growing challenge for leftist President Hugo Chavez.
The OPEC nation has suffered three nationwide blackouts this year, and chronic power shortages have sparked protests from the western Andean highlands to San Felix, a city of mostly poor industrial workers in the sweltering south.
“With so much energy in Venezuela, how can we be without power?”
FPI - SOMEONE PLAYING WITH THE LIGHTS IN VANCOUVER? NO EXPLANATION FOR THE CAUSE OF THE POWER FAILURE WAS GIVEN.
It was craziness. I’ve never seen it like that in here.”
“I can’t remember a power outage of this scope,” Schenk said.
Homes could be plunged into darkness this winter as the nation faces the shocking prospect of power cuts.
The warning, following the release of grim industry figures yesterday, will dredge up memories of the last electricity crisis in 1974.
Ike hit the Galveston-Houston area as a Category 2 storm with winds of 110 mph. Overall, the storm cut power to more than 7.7 million homes and businesses in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Texas and West Virginia as it marched from Texas to the Northeast from Sept. 12 to 19.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some 820,000 customers in Texas remained without power on Monday, nine days after Hurricane Ike hit the Gulf Coast before cutting a destructive path all the way to New York.
CenterPoint Energy Inc, the power company for most of the Houston area, still had about 767,000 customers in Texas without power early Monday, down from 2.15 million at the height of the storm.
More than 4 million people in the Houston region were without electricity after winds of 100 to 110 mph brought down trees and power lines, said Floyd LeBlanc of CenterPoint Energy Inc.