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  1. Cooling off South Africa’s power outage fever

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    Wed, 1 Oct 2008

    The Medupi power station, currently under construction, forms a strategic part to South Africa’s energy policy to meet its growing electricity demand.

  2. Salt Lake City Olympic organizers prepare to prevent power outages

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    Sat, 18 Nov 2000

    By MIKE GORRELL, The Salt Lake Tribune November 13, 2000 (Knight Ridder/Tribune) A power outage at an Olympic event definitely would be embarrassing. Conceivably, it could endanger public safety. To avoid a breakdown of

  1. Cummins generation system provides round-the-clock power protection to Portuguese hospital

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    Fri, 1 Apr 2011

    Generation system including new generators to provide emergency power to the entire establishment in the event of a power outage . Cummins’ distributor in Portugal, Electro Central Vulcanizadora (ECV) fought off competition from companies including

  2. Adobe powers US headquarters with Bloom box fuel cells

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    Fri, 1 Oct 2010

    own electricity on site, further reducing the company’s carbon footprint, lowering energy costs and mitigating power outage risks. Adobe expects to reduce its carbon footprint by approximately 55 000 metric tons over ten years, which is the equivalent

  3. RWE to sue over German nuclear plant closures

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    Fri, 1 Apr 2011

    natural phenomena could have”. Technicians and scientists on the panel would assess the consequence of a three-day power outage on each reactor. Past reviews had looked into a “station blackout” of only two hours, Wieland said. Mr Röttgen

  4. The USA needs a supergrid, and needs one now

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    Mon, 1 Sep 2008

    somewhat melodramatic does have an element of truth behind it. Who, for example, could forget the massive widespread power outage that occurred throughout parts of the Northeast and Midwest of the country, and as far north as Ontario, Canada

  5. Emerson sells millionth valve controller unit

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    Sun, 1 Nov 2009

    infrastructures may be difficult and helping to maintain service during line failure some power firms use 3M ACCR to support power outage contingency planning. Since the conductor can carry double the capacity of existing lines, some lines can therefore

  6. Temporary relief for East Africa's drought struck hydropower plants

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    Sat, 1 May 2010

    commissioned in November 2006. It was estimated that by leasing gas power, Tanzania had saved around $1 for every kWh of power outage averted or, in other terms, about five to ten times the cost of generating the electricity. A study by Energy Sector

  7. Star tracking

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    Mon, 1 May 2006

    electronic mapping systems can also be used to reduce power outage time by around 20 per cent and lead to more efficient operation of power plants as during power outage or other failures, the critical infrastructure can

  8. Shortage threat lingers

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    Mon, 1 Jan 2007

    believes urgent measures must be taken to avoid another power outage like that of 2001. Primo points to 22 generation projects ..... worse eventhan losses of $980 million madeduring the power outage year of 2001. Electricity rationing, combined with