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980801 Morocco, Reuters via Compuserve
RABAT, Aug 1 (Reuters) - French Firm Electricite de France (EDF) has launched
tenders for the construction of a $50 million wind power plant at Koudia
El Beida in the noerthern Moroccan province of Tetouan, a manager said
on Saturday.
980801 Pakistan, Reuters via Compuserve
KARACHI, Pakistan, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Pakistans opposition leader Benazir
Bhutto said on Saturday she would launch a protest campaign against the
government's decision to build a controversial dam on the Indus river.
980731 Morocco, Reuters via Compuserve
CASABLANCA, July 31 (Reuters) - Morocco on Friday said tenders for the
construction of a $500-million power station in the northern Tangiers province
will be launched soon, a manager of the state-run ONE power utility said.
980804 東北電力, 朝日新聞ニュース速報
青森県下北半島の東通（ひがしどおり）村に東北電力が計画している東通原発（沸騰水型、出力百十万キロワット）について、国の原子力安全委員会（佐藤一男委員長）は三日、安全上の問題はないとして、設置許可を妥当とする答申を与謝野馨通産相に提出した。同通産相は今月中にも設置許可を出す見通しで、同電力は今年十二月に着工、二〇〇五年に運転を始める計画だ。新規の立地許可は、一九八八年の北陸電力志賀原発（石川県志賀町、稼働中）以来、十年ぶり。
980804 河川審議会, 共同通信ニュース速報
水の使い捨てから循環型社会に転換するため、建設省の河川審議会水循環小委員会（委員長、高橋裕東大名誉教授）は三日、水基本法（仮称）の制定を検討するよう求める中間報告をまとめた。
980804 Philippines, Manila Bulletin
National Power Corporation yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding
with Japan Export Import Bank and the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund
for a combined $600 million in loans to partly finance the $1.1 billion
San Roque multi-purpose project in Pangasinan.
980804 Philippines, Manila Bulletin
At least 36 electric cooperatives (ECs) nationwide are set to offer discounted
electricity rates to their customers starting this month.
980803 Mekong, BangkokPost
Thailand's position as the travel and tourism gateway of the Greater Mekong
subregion is set to be enhanced by the opening of more border checkpoints
in the near future with Laos and Burma.
980803 Thailand, BangkokPost
Electricity Generating Plc (Egco), the private power firm, has expressed
an interest in acquiring at least a 25% stake in Bangchak Petroleum Plc
(BCP), the majority-state-owned oil refiner and marketer.
980804 電発, Nikkei America
Nikkei English News via NewsEdge Corporation : TOKYO (Nikkei)--Electric
Power Development Co. has begun construction of a laboratory that will
test new types of energy generation to power fuel cells, gas turbines and
steam turbines.
980804 China, ChinaDaily
CHANGCHUN (Aug. 3) XINHUA - Construction of a 100,000-kw wind-power station
is now underway in Tongyu Prefecture in northeast China's Jilin Province,
the first power plant of its kind in the province.
980804 Maulitius, Reuters
Sumitomo Bank will participate in an international syndicate lending 7
yen billion (48.6 dollars millon) to Mauritius to finance power plant construction,
bank sources said. The plant will be one of the largest in the Indian Ocean
nation.
980804 Philippines 関電, NikkeiEnglish
MANILA (Dow Jones)-- The Philippines' National Power Corp. (Q.NAP), said
Monday it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan's Export-Import
Bank for a $600 million loan to help finance the non-power component of
the San Roque hydroelectric project.
980806 Philippines, Manila Bulletin
Food and beverage giant San Miguel Corp. (SMC) is planning to bid in the
National Power Corporation's one-day power sales scheme (ODPS) to avail
of the latter's unutilized capacity.
980805 Thailand, Bangkok Post
General Electric will assist Tri Energy's 700-megawatt power project in
Thailand for US$275 million.
980805 中国, China Daily
日立グループの社長１１人が訪中 日本の新聞報道によると、日立製作所の金井務社長を団長とする日立グループ十一社の社長訪中団が、中国を訪れている。三日には李鵬・全国人民代表大会常務委員長（前首相）と会い、日立の中国ビジネスに対する「やる気」を強調してみせた。社長代表団は一九七八年以来、二回目だ。
980806 Bangladesh, Xinhua
Dhaka to Make Renewable Energy Policy DHAKA XINHUA - The Bangladeshi government
will soon declare a renewable energy policy to give the solar, wind, biomass,
thermal, wave and tidal energy sources a commercial dimension, The Financial
Express daily reported Tuesday. [Xinhua, 226 words]
980806A China, Shanghai Xinhua
Boilers for China's Largest Generators SHANGHAI XINHUA - The Shanghai Boiler
Factory Co. Ltd. recently finished building boilers for some 600,000-kw
generators, China's most powerful. [Xinhua, 94 words]
980806B Ghana, Lagos Xinhua
Electricity Returns to Industries in Ghana LAGOS XINHUA - Electric power
has fully returned to all industrial consumers across Ghana after months
of rationing, while scheduled blackouts have been eased for some domestic
users, according to a report reaching here Wednesday. [Xinhua, 151 words]
980806C China, Heifei Xinhua
Anhui Province to Renovate Rural Power Grid HEFEI XINHUA - East China's
Anhui Province has become the first in China to launch a campaign to renovate
its rural power grid. The effort is part of a national drive to spur economic
growth through the renovation of the power grid in the vast rural areas.
[Xinhua, 119 words]
980806D 東京電力, PR Newswire
TECO Power Services Joins With Mosbacher To Develop International, Domestic
Power Plants TECO Power Services Corporation and Mosbacher Power Partners,
L.P. announced today that they have agreed to jointly develop, own and
operate domestic and international independent power projects. [PR Newswire,
674 words]
980810A Thailand, Newspage
Electricity Use Slips in Thailand BANGKOK XINHUA - Electricity consumption
in Thailand in the first half of this year dropped by 2.3 percent year-on-year
to 46, 688 megawatts as a result of the recession, according to figures
released by the National Energy Policy Office available Saturday. [Xinhua,
110 words]
980810B 中国, AIP
四川省で商談投資する海外の大手多国籍企業は、大幅に増えている。四川省招商局局長唐利民によると、今年上半期四川省が実際利用した外資は３．５億米ドルに達し、新しい外資契約額は３．５７億米ドルで、去年同期より３６％以上増えた。
980810C 中国, AIP
今年上半期、広東省の３１個の交通、エネルギー、水利、郵電など重点プロジェクト建設に７８．３２億元の投資が利用され、年間計画の４３．５１％を占め、去年同期より倍速いことになった。
980811D Nepal, Newspage
DEVELOPMENT-NEPAL/ GO-SLOW ON ENRON PROVOKES POLITICAL STORM The U.S. energy
and gas giant Enron's attempt to close a giant hydroelectric project deal
in Nepal has snowballed into a political storm that could unseat the fragile
four-month-old centrist government in the Himalayan kingdom. [Inter Press
Service, 792 words]
980811E China, Reuters via Cis
BEIJING, Aug 12 (Reuters) - China will soon begin trial operations of its
largest generating unit in history -- the first of six generators at the
Ertan Hydro-electric Power Station, the official Xinhua news agency said.
The second generator at the Ertan dam in southwestern Sichuan province
would be installed in two days' time and start operating in November, Xinhua
said in an overnight report seen on Wednesday.
980811F Vietnam, Reuters via Cis
HANOI, Aug 11 (Reuters) - British Petroleum (BP.L) said on Tuesday it hoped
to see progress within two to three months in negotiations over a stalled
$1.5 billion project to tap Vietnam's largest gas reserves.
980811G Bangladesh, Reuters via Cis
DHAKA, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Bangladesh's first private-sector, barge-mounted
power plant will start producing electricity next week, easing the country's
chronic power shortage.
980810H Morocco, Reuters via Cis
CASABLANCA, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Morocco launched on Monday a pre-selection
tender to build a $500 million power station in the northern Tangiers province.
The Office National d'Electricite (ONE) utility said in a published statement
that applications should be sent to its headquarters at the latest on October
6, 1998.
980810I ChinaFlood, Reuters via Cis
BEIJING, Aug 10 (Reuters) - As China's worst floods in more than four decades
rage along the Yangtze River, fresh debate has broken out over whether
the massive Three Gorges Dam project will finally stop nature's fury or
only make it worse. Beijing has touted the $29 billion project as the answer
to annual flooding along the 5,989-km (3,721-mile) Yangtze, which has killed
millions of people in China's fertile heartland this century alone.
980810J ChinaFlood, Reuters via Cis
BEIJING, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji has warned that
more dikes along the swollen Yangtze River are in danger of collapsing
as a fresh flood peak sent residents and troops scrambling to shore up
flood defences, state media said on Monday.
980808K ChinaFlood, Reuters via Cis
PENGZEMING, China (AP) -- Peng Zejia looks after a dike that protects his
neighbors' houses. His own, on the wrong side of the flood barrier, is
under more than four feet of water. The rising Xincha River in south-central
China's Hunan province, linked to the rain-swollen Yangtze River, forced
more than 100 members of the Peng clan from their homes six weeks ago.
980807L ChinaFloood, Reuters via Cis
BEIJING, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Authorities in China's central Hubei province
have evacuated 500,000 people and imposed a curfew as they prepared to
blow up dikes along the Yangtze River to divert floods, officials and state
media said on Friday. Meanwhile in central Jiangxi province, authorities
urged residents to evacuate Jiujiang city after the Yangtze breached a
major dike, the official Xinhua news agency said.
980807M Turkey, Reuters via Cis
ANKARA, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Turkey, striving to close its energy supply gap,
is planning to build a third thermal power plant of an established capacity
of 1,440 MegaWatt (MW) on a major lignite site in the east, a senior energy
official said. "The High Planning Board has given the approval,"
Zeki Koseoglu, head of the state electricity producer TEAS, told Reuters
late on Thursday.
980806N ChinaFlood, Reuters via Cis
BEIJING, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Devastating summer floods in China have killed
more than 2,000 people and affected 240 million -- one-fifth of its population
and roughly equal to that of the United States. "More than 2,000 people
have died from floods and waterlogging since the beginning of June,"
Vice-Minister of Civil Affairs Fan Baojun told a news conference on Thursday.
980806O Dam, AP
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Dams on major rivers like the Nile, the Tigris and Euphrates
and the Indus have helped civilizations develop. They supply water, control
floods and irrigate crops. But dams have vices too, causing major environmental
change and forcing massive human resettlement. Now dam builders and some
of their severest critics are working together in a new global commission
to establish guidelines that may halt poorly conceived projects while approving
high quality ventures. Forging a consensus, though, will be tricky. In
the past, poor countries, supported by private contractors, have disputed
the rights and wrongs of dam building with environmental and other groups.
The commission will try to establish standards in an area where there are
none.
980806P ChinaFlood, reuters via Cis
BEIJING, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Chinas flooded Yangtze valley was caught on
Thursday in the pincers of two deadly storms, as river swells rolled east
and a typhoon bore down on it from the coast. Regions along middle reaches
of the swollen Yangtze River in Hubei province, among the hardest hit in
flooding that has killed thousands of people, were warned to brace for
the next crest of Chinas longest river, Xinhua news agency said. The central
government, which has largely kept the nation in the dark about the human
and economic toll of Chinas worst flooding since 1954, is to brief reporters
at 3 p.m. (0700 GMT) in Beijing.
980816A Zaire，Reuters via Cis
INGA, Congo, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Rebels control the Democratic Republic
of the Congo's key Inga hydrolectric dam which supplies the capital Kinshasa
but generating is continuing to avoid hardship for civilians, a rebel commander
told Reuters during a visit to the dam on Sunday.
980815B China Flood, Reuters via Cis
BEIJING, Aug 15 (Reuters) - China's battle against its worst floods in
decades has entered a crucial stage, President Jiang Zemin was quoted on
Saturday as saying during a visit to flood-ravaged areas along the Yangtze
River.
980815C China Flood, AP via Cis
BEIJING (AP) -- Even in an average year for China, summer floods bring
weeks of misery, wrecking crops and leaving hundreds of thousands of people
homeless.
980815D China Flood, Reuters via Cis
BEIJING, Aug 15 (Reuters) - China's battle against its worst floods in
decades has entered a crucial stage, President Jiang Zemin was quoted on
Saturday as saying during a visit to flood-ravaged areas along the Yangtze
River. "Flood-fighting on the Yangtze River has reached a crucial
stage when problems may easily appear and carelessness is liable to cause
huge losses," the China Daily quoted Jiang as saying on Friday during
his tour of central Hubei province. The tour started on Wednesday.
980813E Zaire, Reuters via Cis
KINSHASA, Aug 13 (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of the Congo capital
Kinshasa was hit by a power outage on Thursday and an official of the power
utility said it was due to problems at the country's main Inga dam, a target
of rebels.
980813F Malaysia, Reuters via Cis
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Malaysian power utility Tenaga Nasional
Bhd was handed mixed reviews on its financial prospects on Thursday from
rating agencies Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poors (S &
P). On the down side, Moody's said in a statement it was reviewing the
Baa2 rating on Tenaga's senior debt for a possible downgrade.
980813G Chia Flood, Reuters via Cis
BEIJING, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Chinese President Jiang Zemin on Wednesday
visited flood-stricken areas along the Yangtze River as a powerful surge
of water raced down the waterway, posing a new threat to those along its
ravaged banks, state media said.
980813H China Flood, Reuters via Cis
BEIJING, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Floods in northeastern China are threatening
millions of people in the country's industrial heartland, while in the
south a fresh flood peak is rushing down the Yangtze River, officials and
state media said on Thursday.
980817A South Africa, NewsPage
Cartellone, Tribasa win hydroelectric tender The consortium San Francisco,
teaming the construction companies Cartellone= associated to Tribasa won
the tender issued by the= Ecuadorian power institute Inecel to erect and
operate a hydroelectric= plant in a project that involves investments of
US$280mil. [South American Business Intelligence, 93 words]
980817B South Africa, NewsPage
The tender for the Alto Piura power project There are several banks and
consulting companies bidding for the tender to= select a company to model
the privatization of the Alto Piura= hydroelectric project. [South American
Business Intelligence, 347 words]
980817C India, NewsPage
CMS Energy Announces Receipt of Indian Government Counter-Guarantee For
250 Megawatt Lignite-Fueled Power Plant in Tamil Nadu CMS Energy Corporation's
independent power unit, CMS Generation Co., today announced the Neyveli
power project, a $300 million lignite coal-fueled power plant to be built
in Tamil Nadu, India ... [PR Newswire, 559 words]
980817D China, Xinhua
China Investing Heavily on Rural Power Grids TAIYUAN XINHUA - China plans
to spend 100 billion yuan on the upgrading of its rural power grids in
some 2,000 counties from now to 2000. Economists say the move would enable
more rural households to use electrical appliances. [Xinhua, 158 words]
980817E China, Xinhua
Shanghai Improving Power Network SHANGHAI XINHUA - The municipality of
Shanghai is joining 39 cities in planning a massive improvement program
for its power network by spending 4 billion yuan. [Xinhua, 110 words]
980818A China, NewsPage
Demand For China's Largest Power Station PANZHIHUA XINHUA - China's Ertan
Hydro-electric Power Station in the city of Panzhihua in Sichuan Province,
the country's largest to be completed this century, is expected to produce
1.5 billion kwh of electricity this year. [Xinhua, 174 words]
980818B China, Newspage
>> International Bidding Ensures Power Station Quality PANZHIHUA
XINHUA - International bidding has ensured the outstanding construction,
technology and management of the Ertan Hydropower Station scheduled for
completion by the end of the century. [Xinhua, 198 words]
980817C China Flood, Reuters via Cis
EIJING, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers built
a barricade of sandbags on Monday in a "life and death" effort
to protect the nation's biggest oil field and a major city from raging
floodwaters, state media reported.
980819A 中国, 新華社
中国初の６００キロワット級風力発電機２基が先日、新彊の達坂城風力発電所で稼動した。風力エネルギーはクリーンなエネルギー源として発電領域では以前から注目されてきた。中国には利用可能な風力エネルギーが２．５億キロワットあるといわれ、ここ数年に１９ヵ所の風力発電所が完成し、総発電量は１６万キロワットに達している。
980819B中国長江洪水, 新華社
中央軍事委員会の命令に応じて海軍は堪江から２６００名の海兵隊隊員を揚子江洪水の災害現場に派遣した。指揮を執っている海軍南海艦隊司令官の王永国中将、政治委員趙英富中将によれば、今回支援任務に駆けつける海兵隊は精鋭部隊であり、選り抜きの兵士は高性能装備を携帯している。また、隊員たちの精神状態も万全で、必ず今回の任務を成功させられると話している。
980818C 東芝日立, Kyodo
Toshiba, Hitachi eye joint nuclear plant venture with GE TOKYO, Aug. 18
_ Toshiba Corp. and Hitachi Ltd. plan to restructure their nuclear power
generation business and join hands with General Electric Co. of the United
States to jointly develop, build and market nuclear power plants, company
officials said Tuesday. [Kyodo, 270 words]
980819D インドネシア，共同
【ワシントン１９日共同】世界銀行がインドネシア政府に提供した支援資金の一部が不正に使われていた疑いがあることが世銀の内部調査で分かり、世銀は１９日、監視体制の強化など対応を検討していることを明らかにした。
980819E 中国電力, 共同
島根県は１９日、中国電力島根原子力発電所（同県鹿島町）の近くで確認された推定長さ約８キロの活断層について、通産省資源エネルギー庁に同原発の安全性確認のため現地調査を行うよう申し入れた。同庁はできるだけ早い時期に、有識者や専門家による原子力発電技術顧問とともに調査すると回答。８月下旬から９月上旬の間で日程を調整中とした。
980819F 通産省, 共同
通産省は１９日、電力の小売り自由化の具体策を検討するため、９月３日に電気事業審議会基本政策部会にワーキンググループを発足させる方針を固めた。学識経験者、電力会社の企画、送電部門担当役員、ユーザーの産業界代表など２０人弱で構成し、同省は年末までに結論を出したうえで、来年の通常国会で電気事業法を改正する方針だ。しかし、電力業界の抵抗も予想され、「報告書」がまとめられるかは微妙な状況だ。
980820A China, Xinhua
China Offers World's Largest Hydro-Electric Power Market PANZHIHUA XINHUA
- Ambitious efforts to solve energy shortages and control flooding have
transformed China into the world's largest hydro-power market. [Xinhua,
405 words]
980820B 中国, 新華社
中国、世界一の水力発電市場
１９９８年度アメリカ「世界工業手引書」によると、現在建設中の水力発電プロジェクトでは中国が総発電量５千万キロワット以上で一位にランクインしている。二灘水力発電所の技術顧問を務めるノルウェー籍専門家のエドワードソン氏は、三峡、二灘、小浪底水力発電所の規模を考えれば中国が世界最大の水力発電市場を有していることは明らかで、安定した政治・経済情勢が水力発電の開発に明るい展望をもたらしている、と話した。水力発電は汚染ゼロで欧米各国や日本では水力資源の９割以上が開発済み。アメリカはその利用率が９３％、ノルウェーが１００％、日本が１０３％である。未開発の水力資源は主に中国、ロシア、南米とアフリカに分布している。中国は豊かな水力資源を有しており、西南地区だけでも６千万キロワットという三峡水力発電所３個分の発電量に相当するエネルギーが潜んでいる。現在のところ、中国の水力資源開発率は１０％未満である。
980820C Sudan, Reuters via Cis
KHARTOUM, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Sudan's two main sources of hydroelectric
power have been shut down for maintenance and residents in some parts of
the capital Khartoum say they receive only about four hours of electricity
a day.
980821A 中国, AIP
甘粛省、最大級の火力発電所を建設
甘粛省「九五」期間の重点建設プロジェクトである平涼発電所が先日着工された。靖遠発電所に次いで建設されることになった坑道同発電所は甘粛省にとって最多投資額、最大発電量の火力発電所となる。甘粛省は年８％の経済成長伸び率を維持するためには発電量の増加が年６．５％以上であることが前提である。平涼市の石炭貯蔵は豊富で、華亭炭鉱の埋蔵量だけでも３３億トンに達し、大型火力発電所にとって最適の立地条件ある。平涼発電所の総投資額は５８．１億元、そのうち約２０億元は日本円貸付である。今回の工事で４基の３０万キロワット石炭発電機が据え付けられ、その総発電量は１２０万キロワット。建設計画によれば年内に１６億元の資金が投入され、２０００年に最初の発電機、２００３年までに全ての発電機の稼動が可能。なお投資総額の資金源は甘粛省電力公司が６５％、甘粛省電力建設投資開発公司が３５％をそれぞれ出資している。
980821B 中国, AIP
広西壮族自治区は農業水利建設を大幅に促進し、今年７億元の資金を投入。各地現有の大中型ダム３０ヵ所を補強し、新しい灌漑区工事を着工し、灌漑用水路を３０００キロ確保し、灌漑面積を１．３万ヘクタール拡大した。更に今年から来年にかけて１１２億元を投資し、百色水利中枢プロジェクト、佳林市水防工事などの大型計画を立てている。
980824A Pakistan, NewsPage
Asia/ Independent power projects--Blacking out Once a popular financing
tool, IPPs are an endangered species. Project meltdowns in Pakistan and
Indonesia have exposed major problems ... [The Economist Intelligence Unit,
764 words]
980824B China, NewsPage
China to Build World's Highest Concave-Shaped Dam PANZHIHUA XINHUA - China
has announced plans to build the world's highest concave-faced dam, a Chinese
official said here today. [Xinhua, 187 words]
980824C China, NewsPage
Inner Mongolia Steps Up Power Construction in Rural Areas HOHHOT XINHUA
- North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region recently kicked off a
two-billion-yuan project to upgrade power grids in the region's rural areas.
[Xinhua, 226 words]
980824D China, NewsPage
Construction Begins on Northwest Thermal Power Plant LANZHOU XINHUA - Work
on the construction of the largest thermal power plant in northwestern
Gansu Province began this week. The Pingliang Thermal Power Plant will
use the rich coal resources of the province to ease power shortage at the
start of the next century. [Xinhua, 120 words]
980824E 中国, 新華社
中国農業銀行と国家電力公司は合作協議に同意し、１９９８年からの３年間に農銀は農村送電網の建設・改造に１０６０億元の貸付を提供することになった。農銀の何林祥頭取によれば、国民経済伸び率８％の実現に向け国務院は農村送電網の整備を指示し、農銀をこのプロジェクトの主要な貸付銀行に指定した。
980825A 中国，新華社
日本の新聞報道によると、江沢民・中国国家主席が長江（揚子江）流域や東北地方の洪水を理由に九月上旬の訪日を延期するなど、中国の水害は一段と深刻度を増している。全国の洪水による死者はすでに二千人以上を数え、被災者は約二億四千万人。東北地方有数の工業都市である黒竜江省ハルビン市と、長江堤防決壊の危険にさらされ、すでに二か月近くがたつ長江中流の湖北省武漢市で、洪水被害の現状を見た。
980825B Uganda, NewsPage
Norway Finances Uganda's Power Project KAMPALA XINHUA - Norway has offered
financial aid to the installation of Uganda's third generation equipment
at Owen Falls extension, some 80 kms east of the capital Kampala, but information
as to the amount of the money is not available. [Xinhua, 134 words]
980825C China, NewsPage
Large Power Stations Planned For Yangtze River PANZHIHUA XINHUA - A number
of large power stations, many much larger than the existing one, will be
built on the Yangtze River in the next century. [Xinhua, 303 words]
980825D China, NewsPage
Power Station Design to Ignore Logging Interests PANZHIHUA XINHUA - China
plans to protect the environment by eliminating float channels for felled
timber from the design and construction of hydropower stations in the upper
reaches of the Yangtze River. [Xinhua, 245 words]
980825E Bangladesh, Reuters via Cis
DHAKA, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Bangladeshi soldiers on Tuesday threw sandbags
and built walls to save a dam protecting the capital Dhaka, a city of eight
million people, from the worst floods in 10 years.
980826A Paraguay, South American Business
Itaipu to sell energy on an exclusive basis until 2023 Itaipu's electric
power energy production will not be ruled by the MAE= commission due to
the contract signed between Brazil and Paraguay in 1973. [South American
Business Intelligence, 233 words]
980826B China, Xinhua
China Set to Retire Power Station Loan on Schedule PANZHIHUA XINHUA - Chinese
experts said today that the China is fully capable of retiring World Bank
loans for the nation's largest hydropower station constructed this century
on schedule. [Xinhua, 322 words]
980826C China, Xinhua
Backgrounder/ China Uses Largest WB Loan for Single Project PANZHIHUA XINHUA
- The Ertan Hydropower Station in southwest China is the recipient of the
largest single project loan the World Band has provided since its founding
in 1945. [Xinhua, 174 words]
980827D China, Xinhua
Central Chinese City Boosts Power Supply ZHENGZHOU XINHUA - Zhengzhou,
capital of China's Henan province, has started on a 1.6-billion-yuan project
to improve the electric-power grid in urban areas. [Xinhua, 90 words]
980831A China, NewsPage
Chinese, U.S. Companies to Build Hydropower Station in Guizhou GUIYANG
XINHUA - A Chinese company from southwest China's Guizhou Province and
a firm of the United States will jointly spend 60 million U.S. dollars
to build a hydropower station in Guizhou and a cooperative agreement to
this regard was signed here today. [Xinhua, 253 words]
980831B Myanmar, NewsPage
China to Help Myanmar Build Its Largest Hydropower Station KUNMING XINHUA
- Yunnan Province in southwest China will help Myanmar build its largest
hydropower station during the next five years. [Xinhua, 105 words]
980831C 通産省, 時事通信ニュース
通産省は、東通原子力発電所の設置許可をきっかけに原発建設が進むことを期待している。昨年末の地球温暖化防止京都会議で決まった二酸化炭素（ＣＯ２）の削減目標を達成するには、火力発電から原発への転換が欠かせないと同省は判断しているためだ。
９８０８３D 東京電力, 共同通信ニュース
東京電力は三十一日、地震や水害などの災害時に応急電源として派遣する発電車の一部に東日本、西日本両方の周波数に対応できる車種を本年度中に本格配備する方針を明らかにした。東電は阪神大震災の発生時に保有発電車の派遣を検討したが、日本の東西で周波数が違うため派遣を断念した苦い経験がある。
980831E China Floods, Reuters via Cis
BEIJING, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Weary Chinese flood workers, beset by disease
and shortages of clothes and building materials, are battling yet another
"devastating" surge on the Yangtze River, state media said on
Monday.
980829F Zaire, Reuters via Cis
KINSHASA, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Zimbabwean forces allied to President Laurent
Kabila took control of a key hydro-electric dam in the Democratic Republic
of the Congo on Saturday, after striking a safe-passage deal with rebels
holding it, a senior official of the state power company SNEL said.
980828G Uganda, Reuters via Cis
KAMPALA, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Uganda's parliament sent a bill to liberalise
the electricity sector back to the committee stage late on Thursday, claiming
it did not safeguard the interest of Ugandans.