Spike in power prices due to gas supply cut
Households unaffected by Nov gas supply shutdown incident, while 10% of firms briefly hit.
Tue, Jan 20, 2009
The Straits Times
ELECTRICITY prices shot through the roof briefly in November last year, after a severe thunderstorm caused a gas supply shutdown for eight hours.
The Straits Times understands that the disruption, which has now been confirmed by the Energy Market Authority (EMA), was the first major disruption to Singapore's gas supply since December 2006.
The November disruption had not been disclosed to the public.
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