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Coal comfort on power supply

COAL stocks for power plants were above the "alert" level in snow-hit regions of the nation, which will ensure continuous power supply, a senior official of State Grid Corp of China said yesterday. Accumulative... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Wed, Nov 18 2009

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