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January 2008
- Gaza City Shuts Off Power Amid Claimed Fuel Shortage
  
  BBC | Jan 20, 08 3:17 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Gaza City’s sole power plant has shut down due to what Palestinian officials claim are insufficient fuel supplies, the BBC reports. Israel—which provides 60% of Gaza’s electricity—closed its border last week with the Gaza Strip, preventing the import of virtually all supplies. The move followed a barrage of rocket and mortar attacks after a military incursion Tuesday that killed 18 Palestinians. More »
  
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  Israel • United Nations • Palestine • Gaza • electricity • power plant • Gaza City
- Cybercrooks Hacking Power Grid
  
  PC World | Jan 20, 08 8:38 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Foreign extortionists have managed to hack into US power grids and shut them down, PC World reports, citing a CIA analyst speaking at a security conference this week. "In at least one case, the disruption caused a power outage affecting multiple cities. We do not know who executed these attacks, but all involved intrusions through the Internet," the analyst said. More »
  
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  Internet • CIA • hackers • electricity • power outage • cybercrime • extortion • power grid
December 2007
- Cisco Goes Green with Energy Gauging
  
  PC World | Dec 26, 07 10:42 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Green-minded Cisco Systems is looking to improve energy efficiency by monitoring power consumption, operating temperature, and more from its enterprise data network. With energy costs and global warming worries escalating, Cisco plans to expand beyond communications and use its data network to help companies manage their power use and prevent servers from overheating and shutting down. More »
  
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  electricity • green • Cisco Systems • computer network • routers
November 2007
- Energy Conservation Comes Home
  
  MIT Technology Review | Nov 16, 07 1:31 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Energy companies are hoping to cut costs and conserve electricity by training customers to trim power use during peak hours, reports the MIT Technology Review . By viewing small monitors in homes, customers can see when demand is highest and turn off energy-hogging air conditioners, dishwashers and space heaters. Generating so-called “negawatts” can even create excess megawatts that can be sold. More »
  
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  technology • conservation • electricity • business tech
- Africa: Let There Be Light
  
  Christian Science Monitor | Nov 16, 07 2:50 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Even after decades of development, most African communities have no electrical power and still go dark when the sun goes down. Only 5% of Ugandans, 6% of the Congolese population and 15% of Kenyans have electricity. Now the World Bank has launched an initiative to light the homes of 250 million Africans by 2025. More »
  
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  Africa • South Africa • World Bank • electricity • LEDs
October 2007
- Israel Cuts Fuel to Gaza
  
  Associated Press | Oct 28, 07 6:32 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Israel cut Gaza’s fuel supply today in a bid to force the strip's Hamas government to curb rocket attacks on Israel. An Israeli official told the New York Times the plan was to cut deliveries 5 to 11%, but a Gazan official told the AP shipments were short by over 30%. Israel also closed one of two crossings through which food and medicine flow into Gaza. More »
  
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  Israel • Hamas • Mahmoud Abbas • Gaza • gas • Fatah • electricity • fuel • Ehud Barak
- The Lucky Find Homes, but No Water, Power
  
  Associated Press | Oct 27, 07 6:24 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Thousands of Southern California residents have returned to their homes—those fortunate enough to find them standing—to find no electricity and no drinking water, with town reservoirs drained to fight fires, and air choked with smoke and ash. The threat of changing weather also looms: the hot winds that fueled the fires are predicted to return tomorrow, ending the lull that allowed firefighters to battle back the blazes. More »
  
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  California • wildfires • San Diego • air pollution • electricity • drinking water • California fires
- GE Turning Green; Unplugs Light Bulb Plants
  
  Wall Street Journal | Oct 5, 07 6:19 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Bowing to market pressure to switch to more energy-efficient lighting, General Electric is shutting down 7 of 54 plants and warehouses that serve its incandescent light bulb operation, reports the Wall Street Journal . Some 1,400 workers will lose their jobs, but only a third of them will be US workers. In two years, GE will have jettisoned 16% of its lighting work force. More »
  
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  energy • electricity • General Electric • Technology
September 2007
- Frisco to Go Dark—on Purpose
  
  San Francisco Chronicle | Sep 20, 07 4:03 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - In a move initiated by a local environmentalist, San Francisco will launch a voluntary brownout next month to show people how easy it is to save electricity. Lights Out San Francisco is asking everyone to switch off unnecessary lights for an hour on October 20. Activist Nate Tyler got the idea when he watched the Sydney Opera House power down for a similar event. More »
  
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  California • environment • San Francisco • electricity
- Breaking SoCal Heat Wave Leaves 27 Dead
  
  Los Angeles Times | Sep 6, 07 4:07 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Southern California's heat wave finally seems to be breaking after killing at least 27 people in crushing temperatures. The deaths include an elderly couple who told neighbors they were turning off their air conditioning to save money. Several victims died while illegally crossing the US-Mexico border in searing heat. More »
  
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  California • elderly • electricity • Southern California • power outage • heat wave
August 2007
- Iraq Electric Grid Seized by Militias
  
  New York Times | Aug 23, 07 11:31 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Large swaths of Iraq's power grid have fallen under the control of armed militias, the New York Times reports. The balkanization of power stations worsens an already fragile situation in which insurgents blow up power lines and leave Baghdad without power at the height of a 110-degree summer. More »
  
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  Iraq • Baghdad • insurgents • electricity • militia • power grid
July 2007
- Toyota Tests Plug-In Hybrids
  
  San Francisco Chronicle | Jul 26, 07 5:20 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Toyota will provide two experimental plug-in electric hybrid cars to the University of California for road testing, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The new vehicles can travel 100 miles on a single gallon of gas after a boost from a rechargeable battery that plugs in to a standard 110-volt current. More »
  
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  California • car • Toyota • hybrid car • electricity • battery • University of California
- Quake Damage Halts Auto Assembly Lines
  
  Forbes | Jul 19, 07 9:26 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Japanese auto makers known for their lean inventories have had to shut down assembly lines for want of parts in the wake of Monday's earthquake. A key supplier of transmission and engine components was damaged in the 6.8-magnitude quake. Toyota, Nissan and Mitsubishi have all halted production at some plants; Honda is threatening to join them, Forbes reports. More »
  
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  Japan • earthquake • Toyota • electricity • Tokyo • power plant • radioactive • nuclear waste
May 2007
- Booming India Is Starved for Power
  
  New York Times | May 21, 07 8:35 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - India's economy is growing so fast it has outstripped its electrical capacity, leaving burgeoning businesses, industries and homes to generate their own power with soot-belching diesel-powered generators for hours every day. Half of India's populace has no connection to the grid at all, and new construction often goes up without any plan for supplying electricity. More »
  
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  US economy • India • energy • electricity • alternative energy • nuclear power • power • coal • power grid
April 2007
- Plug-In Has Power to Spare
  
  CNET | Apr 10, 07 12:22 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A souped-up plug-in hybrid unveiled yesterday has excited talk of a future in which cleaner-running cars are also profitable. With a new lithium-ion battery that can store up to nine kilowatt/hours of electricity, a hybrid owner could buy electricity at night, store it in the battery, and then sell it back to the grid at higher prices during the day. More »
  
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  environment • energy • car • hybrid car • electricity • alternative energy • power grid