Now it's mired in an energy shortage brought on by--why is this not surprising?
Peak demand shortage is more than 10%, whereas the overall energy shortage is more than 7%.
Second, an energy shortage obliged the government to impose rationing aimed at cutting electricity consumption by a fifth.
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He gives warning, too, of an impending energy shortage because of price controls and the government's unfriendliness to investors.
Chile, with little oil and gas, faces an energy shortage, especially if the economy continues to grow by 6% a year.
"The Stateline project is just the sort of sustainable solution we need for the region's energy shortage, " Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber said.
Pakistan is battling the Taliban in the midst of a huge economic downturn, massive unemployment and an acute energy shortage - there is no electricity in major cities for up to 10 hours a day.
Before the 2008 elections, for example, Patterson sent out pollsters to ask questions of Pakistani civilians, and found that despite Bhutto's recent death, the "Red Mosque" storming and a celebrated rebellion of lawyers over the sacking of the nation's chief justice, it was Musharraf's failure to tackle energy prices, food shortage and inflation that had turned voters against him.
"The Critical Materials Institute will bring together the best and brightest research minds from universities, national laboratories and the private sector to find innovative technology solutions that will help us avoid a supply shortage that would threaten our clean energy industry as well as our security interests, " he said in a statement.
In the Lords (from 2.30pm) it's quite a heavy legislating day - but first, there's an eclectic selection of questions to ministers, with peers asking about cultural diversity in the media and creative industries, progress in discontinuing funding for the Republic of Ireland's aids to navigation, discussions with energy providers about recent price increases and the shortage of midwives.
That leaves Germany facing a long-term capacity shortage that will not be solved by renewable energy.
Officials say the deal is essential to meet the growing energy demands of Bangladesh, which is facing a daily gas shortage of up to 14m cubic metres or about 25% of its total requirement.
In a complete reversal of the widely accepted energy paradigms of declining domestic hydrocarbon production, dependence, and shortage, it is now realistic for America not just to feed the world, but to fuel it as well.
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Many commentators see price spikes in times of shortage as the flip-side of the same liberalised energy markets that provide cheap gas in times of plenty.
There's certainly no shortage of companies working to make electronics of all sorts more energy efficient, but NEC and Rohm Co now say that they're on the verge of a breakthrough that could change things in a big way, and we could possibly see it in "practical use" by the end of this year.
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But Dr Tim Fox, head of energy and environment at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, warned of a potential shortage of skilled engineers needed to build the plant.
But then came July, when Mirant, Reliant Energy, Duke Energy, Dynegy and others took heat for their possible role in creating an artificial shortage during the 2001 electric power crisis.
And Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel Poneman, who was attending the International Energy Forum in Saudi Arabia, said U.S. officials had seen no evidence of an oil shortage.
Given the concern over climate change and the looming shortage of fossil fuels and uranium which overshadows our industrial future, geoscientists are focusing more on renewable energy these days.
Peabody Energy is one of the world's largest miners of coal, an ancient commodity given new luster by the shortage of petroleum and by advances in smokestack scrubbers.
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