A massive blackout affected as many as 70,000 customers of
Con Edison in New York City on Saturday, July 13. A transformer fire is blamed
for the outage.A fire at a substation at West 64th Street an
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As of 1:30 pm eastern time on Monday, July 15, 2019, 40,478
customers of electric power utilities are still without power in Louisiana in
the wake of Tropical Storm Barry. Barry as a Category 1 hurr
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It’s not just severe weather, earthquakes, and floods that
cause power outages around the U.S. and around the world. Mother Nature’s
critters can also wreak havoc on the grid.Just last month in Toky
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Extreme weather that can cause power outages is not just
occurring during hurricane season and the winter. Now a days the phenomenon
occurs all year round.The recent history of extreme weather is be
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As consumers become more aware of the fragile state of the
world’s ecosystem, more of them are turning toward eco-friendly products that
are manufactured to limit their affects on global warming.We
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Many American workers dream of a retirement spent traveling
in a recreation vehicle with their spouse. Others fancy summer vacations
traveling the highways of the country with their spouse and child
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The hurricane season of 2018 was devastating and included
some of the most powerful storms on record from Hurricane Florence to Hurricane
Michael.The experiences of last year have heightened fears t
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Ice storms affected communities in Illinois, Iowa, and parts
of Michigan causing power outages in some areas Tuesday night, February 5 and
Wednesday, February 6, 2019.
For the first
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It’s not only natural disasters and extraordinary cold
temperatures that can wreak havoc on the American power grid. Directors of
America’s top intelligence agencies warn that both Russia
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For the second consecutive weekend winter storms have
overwhelmed sections of the U.S. including New England, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, and the Midwest. Scattered power outages were also r
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Although the snow has stopped falling in Michigan, as of 10
a.m. central time on Tuesday, November 27, about 2,900 customers of Indiana
Michigan Power Company are without power.
Crew
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Winter struck the eastern United States with a vengeance
causing more than 400,000 power outages in segments of Pennsylvania, New York,
Maryland, Virginia, and the New England states during the week
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