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South Africa, which had a rash of blackouts in 2008 and imports electricity from its neighbours, sorely needs more generating capacity.

Consider what you know. Everyone named after a state. Everyone sharing the same birthday. Your blackouts.

Rolling blackouts already in place in and around Tokyo may just be a taste of the ripple effects still to come.

3 blackouts yesterday when he said he played computer.

Blackouts forced mines to stop operating for a few days last month and have also hit manufacturing hard.

Blackouts per household have been kept to a remarkably low four minutes a year.

Power blackouts have been a regular feature of life in India for many years.

Only a week after the quake, Tokyo was facing rolling blackouts.

These periods of amnesia, commonly known as "blackouts, " can last from a few minutes to several hours.

Blackouts appear to be the worst in smaller towns like Yiyang here in Hunan, one of China's largest and most populous provinces.

A future where we begin to see rolling brownouts and blackouts as commonplace occurrences.

NASA will attempt to explain the increasing blackouts and tail debris by claiming solar activity and the proliferation of space junk.

It has caused deaths, structural collapses, blackouts, accidents, transport problems and livestock and crop destruction.

But greater problems will emerge if rolling electrical blackouts and transportation disruptions across the country continue for long.

The earthquake triggered widespread power blackouts, and tsunami alerts were issued across the Pacific Ocean from Russia to Hawaii.

The big blackouts over swathes of India in the summer of 2012 were widely blamed on its burgeoning middle class's desire to keep cool.

Nights were long with the town's mandatory blackouts. The barkeep's daughter tried to plant laser transmitters for detonating explosives.

Large parts of northern India, including the national capital New Delhi, suffered two 12-hour-long power blackouts over the weekend.

Rolling blackouts implementation of the plan is expected to give the Japanese economy and social aspects of a huge negative impact.

Eto, both at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the U. S. economy takes an $80-billion hit from localized blackouts and brownouts.

The frequent occurrence of power system blackouts draws researchers'attention on studying of the corrective controlling the power system.

No one was really sure what that would do, but many suggested catastrophic problems ranging from vast blackouts to nuclear holocaust.

Meanwhile, blackouts are starting to slow the nation's torrid growth of energy-intensive industries like steel, cement and chemicals.

The energy boss would not rule out the possibility of frequent blackouts.

Rich states, no longer strangers to blackouts, are worried about security of energy supply.

The blackouts are being rolled across thousands of streets in rural areas, suburbs and city centers in almost every county in the UK.

In 2003, during the last time the tail directly wafted to Earth, there were blackouts aplenty.

Minimum floor area within a 13-storey-high 25, did not lift blackouts , the fundamental Pabushangqu.

The state electricity firm has been giving warnings of blackouts as it struggles to meet big increases in demand.

While backup power would be available in the event of industrial action, blackouts could not be ruled out.

Energy was a major concern as some countries had to cope with power shortage and rolling blackouts.

In addition, many virtual private networks, normally used to circumvent Beijing's filtering of foreign sites, have suffered blackouts.

Governments have been known to use Internet blackouts as a weapon in recent uprisings.

In Karachi, affluent families have hired private security guards, or bought generators to deal with daily electric blackouts.

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Cold weather in November cut into supplies of coal, and the latest move signals top-level concerns over the possibility of blackouts.

Along with officially orchestrated rolling blackouts, these decisions will inevitably engender shortages of various goods and services.

The electrical network is in such bad shape that blackouts will persist for years, despite the huge amounts already being invested.

The prospect of rolling power blackouts means further interruptions are likely over the coming weeks.

But blackouts are not the only problem.

As soon as the Allied Forces drew near, the Resistance would end the blackouts over the city.

Power cuts and blackouts hit factories and residential neighborhoods in central China as coal supplies dwindle at generating stations.

But conservation measures appear to have have helped avoid feared blackouts.

Even in Tokyo, my secretary could not report to work on a number of days because trains were stopped by blackouts.

The best way to avoid such blackouts, Langer says, is to develop the habit of always noticing new things in whatever situation you're in.

Millions of households remain without power or adequate supplies of natural gas. TEPCO has suspended plans to impose rolling blackouts.

Blackouts are now history in Sichuan, thanks to a crash program of construction of power grids.

These lapses can happen for a millisecond, but according to these images, the brain is impaired during those short blackouts.

But a significant curb in nuclear power would mean rampant blackouts, he warned.

Nuclear power shutdowns triggered rolling power blackouts across much of the country.

The storms have brought death, building collapses, power blackouts, highway closures and crop devastation.

Amazingly, Japan made it through the summer without blackouts.

Yet blackouts at home and embarrassment abroad are even worse, and so government pronouncements have been growing increasingly prescriptive.

Rolling electricity blackouts and nuclear fears are hampering manufacturing and exports.

Areas around Tokyo are facing rolling blackouts that have pushed stores and offices to close early.

With the emergence of nuclear power plant accident, and Tokyo began rolling blackouts and gasoline shortages.

Rolling blackouts worsened by waning hydroelectric capacity are expected to deepen in the hottest days of summer.

Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Sunday it may have to conduct rolling blackouts in winter, in addition to summer.

Authorities issued a tsunami warning, but later lifted it. The tremor caused widespread blackouts in affected areas.

Earthquake. Tsunami. Nuclear crisis. Now rolling blackouts, food shortages and queues for petrol.

Libya has seen rolling Internet blackouts and near-complete outages since a democratic uprising began in February.

Grids may suffer from transient blackouts and brownouts, often due to weather damage.

But a summer of rolling blackouts may be avoided.

Factories buy diesel generators to maintain operations during blackouts.

Much of the country is experiencing rolling blackouts due to the loss of the electricity from the damaged nuclear plants.

Radio announcer: The storm has downed a number of power lines causing blackouts over most of long island.

There were big protests over this and over electricity blackouts, water shortages and rising crime.

Meanwhile, rolling blackouts have hit central and southern China as many of the dams on the river are operating below capacity.

Such laws also slow the construction of power plants, contributing to the rolling blackouts that crippled South Africa in 2008.

Energy-watchers now fret about possible blackouts as power stations close and are not replaced.

But blackouts that linger will lead to looting and hospitals and clinics struggling to meet medical emergencies.

Blackouts, which cost businesses billions each year, would become much rarer.

We could sharply increase the reliability of their network and reduce blackouts .

Nigeria's power system was under pressure with persistent and frequent blackouts the norm.

Kabul is the capital of Afghanistan but still its citizens suffer from regular blackouts.

The phenomenon of rolling blackouts and the lack of oil, the medical line to Tokyo a profound impact.

My friend switched the subject to the poor condition of India's roads, its dilapidated cities and the constant blackouts.

Short-term effects include memory loss, hangovers, and blackouts.

They also suggest that Gaza be linked to Egypt's electricity grid, to end the strip's daily blackouts.

Blackouts, both planned and otherwise, are affecting daily lives in no small way.

enough with these spells of tension that paralyzed us in the past , i don ' t want any more blackouts ?

In Texas, some power plants were forced to close, state power management 2 announced rolling blackouts by region.

Unease, or even panic, will spread in 2010 as consumers digest the prospect of much higher energy bills, blackouts, or both.

Congestion on lines carrying power from north to south raises the risk of blackouts.

Solar storms in the past have damaged power grids, causing blackouts, and harmed and destroyed satellites.

Melkert said blackouts continue to persist nationally on average about nine hours a day.

There were 17 fullscale blackouts and power grids across central and southern China were severely damaged.

Residents were seen fleeing on foot, by motorbike and in cars amid blackouts and water supply cuts.

Residents of many major urban areas complain of 20-hour-long daily blackouts.

Residents of many major urban areas complain of 20-hour-long daily blackouts.

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If the capital-spending program were cut by, say, 70%, blackouts become a certainty by 2014, Mr. Weaving says.

But backed-up ports, frequent blackouts and hellish roads put many off.

ALL too frequently Vietnam's capital is plagued by power blackouts.

To prevent blackouts, factories are running their own diesel-powered generators.

Mountainous Guizhou province in the southwest China has seen five deaths, 1, 631 collapsed homes and widespread blackouts.

In addition to inconvenience, blackouts are causing major economic losses.

Meanwhile, Chenzhou, a city of about 4 million in the central province of Hunan, began its 11th day of blackouts and water cuts on Tuesday.

But the local blackouts are clearly not what the central government intended.

The government's new energy adviser says the UK could face blackouts by 2016 because green energy is not coming on stream fast enough.

But brownouts and blackouts would soon begin.

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Large areas of Japan are without power and the government is beginning a programme of rolling electricity blackouts.

In South China, over 32 million people were affected and in Guizhou Province, 18 cities and towns suffered simultaneous blackouts.

New constraints from the earthquake, such as rolling blackouts expected during peak summer and winter demand this year, add to the pain.

Daily blackouts, long ones, will be a norm.

ITC-filed and -issued documents are riddled with blackouts , primarily for figures such as prices and volumes, which aren't wanted public.

"There's a risk of blackouts somewhere between 2013 and 2016, depending on how fast the economy recovers, " says Mr Helm.

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In some places, such as New York City, the focus will be on making the grid more reliable, to avoid blackouts such as that of 2003.

And it is much worse in smaller towns and rural areas, where power blackouts can last for more than 12 hours a day.

But he lacks expertise in this field, and Cuba is famous for 12-hour blackouts.

The shelters, the blackouts, cups of tea.

Power blackouts were affecting about 2 million residents around Tokyo alone, the government said.

The country has been forced to launch 'rolling blackouts' to cope with the loss of nuclear power.

Severe storms in 1989 and 2003 caused blackouts in Canada and Sweden.

In South Africa, ripple control is being introduced to prevent a repeat of the rolling blackouts that crippled the country last year.

Brazil suffered 91 big blackouts during 2010, up from 48 in 2008.

Anger in Japan is mounting at Tokyo Electric Power Co over its management of a series of planned blackouts.

In Japan, the Hino plant is undergoing three-hour rolling blackouts. Its suppliers draw power from the now-disabled nuclear plants.

For example, from 2004 to 2007, blackouts decreased by more than half, from 26, 675 hours to 10, 280 hours.

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