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Li Ka-shing, Asia's richest man, is to spin off his electricity assets in Hong Kong through an initial public offering worth up to HK$27.9 billion ($3.6 billion) and will sell a large chunk to a Chinese state-owned power company.

• 13 января 2014, 13:39

Britain faced travel chaos on Monday and more than 10,000 homes were without electricity in northwestern France as a massive storm swept in from the Atlantic Ocean.

• 28 октября 2013, 14:30

Unidentified assailants armed with guns and Molotov cocktails attacked power stations in a violence-torn western Mexican state Sunday.

• 28 октября 2013, 10:53

Large parts of Johannesburg -- including the suburb where Nelson Mandela is recuperating following his hospital release -- were without electricity.

• 05 сентября 2013, 18:12

British scientists on Tuesday reported they had harnessed the power of urine and were able to charge a mobile phone with enough electricity to send texts and surf the internet.

• 17 июля 2013, 18:56

A Sri Lankan man suffered a fatal heart attack after being presented with a shocking electricity bill.

• 30 июня 2013, 10:58

Production of mercury-containing light bulbswill be banned in Kazakhstan.

• 15 мая 2013, 19:14

Tests of a new plasma-fuel system started at Almaty Thermal Power Plant No.2.

• 03 мая 2013, 18:51

The project of the solar power station was presented on May 1 in Zhanakorgan region of Kyzylorda oblast.

• 03 мая 2013, 14:12

More than 68,000 homes were without electricity in France and hundreds of people were trapped in their cars after a winter storm hit with heavy snow.

• 12 марта 2013, 15:46

"Yesterday I did not make anything to eat as there was no electricity for the entire day," says Umm Fadi, a resident of Artuz district near Damascus that has been caught up in the fighting between rebels and regime forces.

• 11 марта 2013, 14:57

Pakistan was hit by a nationwide blackout for more than two hours after the breakdown of a major plant caused power stations to stop working across the country.

• 25 февраля 2013, 18:40

Several thousand people joined street rallies across Bulgaria on Monday as initial protests against high electricity bills snowballed into bitter anger against the right-wing government of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.

• 19 февраля 2013, 14:12

Samruk-Energo is planning to start constructing the first stage of Yerementau Wind Power Station with a capacity of 45 megawatt this year.

• 06 февраля 2013, 17:45

Emergency at Zhambyl-Shymkent power line of Central-Asian 'power ring' weakened reliability of the joint power system of Central Asia.

• 15 января 2013, 13:59

Residents of the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek have no gas to heat their homes amid arctic temperatures because Kazakhstan cut off the supply.

• 17 декабря 2012, 17:55

The Pacific nation of Samoa faces up to two weeks without electricity, officials said Friday, after a cyclone that killed two people and sent hundreds fleeing to safety destroyed its main power station.

• 14 декабря 2012, 13:38

French energy giant Alstom has begun suspending work on a 1.3-billion-euro ($1.67-billion) coal-fired electricity plant in Slovenia after failing to receive financing guarantees from the government.

• 04 ноября 2012, 17:34

Bowing to mounting pressure, Mayor Michael Bloomberg canceled New York's annual marathon set for Sunday.

• 03 ноября 2012, 14:45

Wind generators were purchased in Novonikolskoye village of North-Kazakhstan oblast.

• 10 октября 2012, 12:14