By Karen Sanje Lilongwe — Impoverished villagers are hacking down Malawi’s forests to make charcoal, undeterred by government efforts to confiscate the dirty fuel as a power deficit stokes demand. Only 9 percent of the southern African country’s population have access to electricity, ensuring a good market for the charcoal produced by communities living near […]
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POWER utility Zesa Holdings has pleaded with workers to accept a grossly diluted salary arrears offer arguing implementing the order from a collective bargaining arbitral award would leave it with close to $ 1 billion deficit. Zesa said in view of its financial limitations and potential impact of complying with the ruling from the 2012 […]
September 12, 2014 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Republished September 12, 2014, 10:20 a.m., the end date on the second graph was corrected. Storage injections have continued to outpace the five-year (2009-13) average this summer, with inventories as of September 5 at 2,801 billion cubic feet (Bcf), according to data from the , with stocks […]
