electricity

Environmental Minister: Cut Power to Gaza

Environmental Minister Gilad Erdan is recommending that Israel cut power to Gaza in order to conserve electricity for its own use.

Israel is considering how to deal with possible power shortages this summer after Egypt reneged on its contract to supply natural gas.

Japan has taken its second-to-last nuclear reactor off line, and the last will be shut down in May, creating a possible power shortage.

Gaza's Hamas rulers are caught between their rage at Israel and their distaste for having to cooperate with Egypt, leaving them powerless.

Israelis will be expected to pay even more than they already have for their electricity by the end of this secular calendar year.

A controversial power bill that threatened to topple the Hizbullah-backed government in Beirut has been approved.

A potential cabinet crisis has lit up Beirut as power politics top the Hizbullah-backed Mikati government's agenda.

The PA raises electricity rates and blames Israel for it. Israelis to pay 12% more, PA 7%.

Finance Ministry lowers taxes on diesel fuel, makes it possible for Electric Company to make price hike less steep.