Friday, April 18, 2008

In Africa, outages stifle a boom

The global commodities boom is claiming another casualty: Africa's already-shaky power grid.
With the continent's power-hungry mining sector booming and the economy along with it, national electricity grids are fraying. Higher prices for coal and oil are only intensifying the strain on electricity companies.
http://www.moneyweb.co.za/mw/view/mw/en/page94?oid=203733&sn=Detail

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