1.   Akers rations her energy and adjusts to a new role for the U.S.

2.   Energy is rationed throughout the country, and water and sewer systems -- where they exist -- are in bad shape.

3.   Desperately in debt to neighboring Russia for oil and gas and electricity, Ukraine already rations energy to most of its residents.

4.   Rebel attacks on several electricity transmission towers has forced the government to begin rationing energy, the Energy and Mines Ministry said.

5.   Switch off the air conditioner and take fewer hot showers, officials are telling Brazilians ahead of an unpopular drive to ration energy.

6.   The power shortage has already forced authorities to ration energy and residents of Tbilisi are getting electricity for just six hours a day.