Electricity prices to be reduced from April 1

Consumers can expect smaller electricity bills from 1 April to 30 June 2007. SP Services says electricity prices will fall by nearly 6% beginning next month because of lower fuel oil prices. Domestic users will now pay 18.88 cents per kWh, compared to 20.02 cents per kWh.

For the period 1 April to 30 June, tariffs are pegged to a lower fuel oil price of US$42.60 per barrel. In the previous quarter, the price was US$48.16 per barrel. The electricity tariff is reviewed quarterly, so prices will be reviewed again in June.

- This is based off a 3-month moving average, and the past 3 months have seen crude oil prices hovering in the $50's. But oil prices are creeping up again above $60. Already, petrol prices, keyed off a shorter 1-week or so average, have been going up, via slashing of discount rates.

IBM J9 JDK in Eclipse

Instructions for setting up the Windows edition of the IBM J9 JDK for local development of mobile applications in Eclipse.

1. Install the IBM J9 JDK for Windows (aka WEME - "Websphere Everyplace Micro Environment").

2. Look for, and unzip weme-win-x86-ppro11_6.1.1.20061110-161633.zip into an empty directory. I chose c:\weme-6.1.1 - just change the references below if you choose a different directory.

3. From Eclipse, go to Windows, Preferences, Java, Installed JREs and click Add.

4. Browse to the directory that was unzipped to earlier (c:\weme-6.1.1).

5. You will get an error message : "Target is not a JDK Root. Java executable was not found"

6. To fix that, copy c:\weme-6.1.1\bin\j9.exe to java.exe in the same directory

7. If you try Step #3 again, you will get another error message : "Target is not a JDK Root. System library was not found."

8. Not a problem : just create the directory c:\weme-6.1.1\jre\lib and copy
c:\weme-6.1.1\lib\jclFoundation11\classes.zip to c:\weme-6.1.1\jre\lib\rt.jar

9. There should be no further complaints from Eclipse at this point.

10. Enter a name for the JRE, let's say, weme-6.1.1

11. Uncheck "Use default system libraries", click Add External Jars, and add the required libraries :

12. Select weme-6.1.1 as your default JRE, click OK, and your project will now re-compile under the J9 JDK.

13. If you try running your application, you will get this error message :

JVMJ9VM011W Unable to load jclfoun10_23: The specified module could not be found.
JVMEXEX013E Internal VM error: Failed to create Java VM
JVMEXEX014I Run C:\weme-6.1.1\bin\java.exe -help for usage

14. Go back to Installed JREs and edit your weme-6.1.1 JRE

15. Under Default VM Arguments, add -jcl:ppro11

16. Your application should now run under the J9 JDK. You should be able to debug as well.

17. (optional) - If you would like to browse the JDK source code, add the source attachment settings :

- Skip the error messages above and enter all the required settings directly to save time. Just showing them here for my own reference.

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