Power Outage News in the US

Metallic balloons that drifted into PG&E power lines caused more than 600 powuer outages, a 27 percent increase from the previous year and the highest number of balloon-related outages that PG&E has seen in a decade.

The heavy load caused by extreme heat led to the power outage of two Kansas City Board of Public Utilities electrical wires in Kansas City, Kansas. BPU reports the wires were near a substation. Crews were actively working to repair the issue by replacing the wires.

Although Hurricane Idalia was causing limited damage Wednesday in Northeast Florida, power outages were rising rapidly across the region. Statewide, 278,313 people were without power, most in the Big Bend region. Florida Power & Light Co., the state’s biggest utility with 5.8 million customers, said 38,979 had no power.

A large snake that made its home inside a traffic signal breaker box in Virginia was removed after it flipped a switch that controls the lights.

More than 2,400 Saugus homes were impacted by a power outage. Equipment failure caused the outage, which continued to impact 104 households in the area bounded by Silver Oak Court, Pepper Place, Foxwood Lane and Raintree Lane.

Many Orem residents were without power. More than 9000 customers were affected. UT. Crews restored services a couple of hours later, the cause of the outage is due to a problem with the substation.

Thousands of DTE Energy customers in the Grosse Pointe area lost power last week when temperatures hit the mid-90s. DTE said the issue was caused by a transmission outage, not because of a lack of supply.

Duke Energy crews have restored power to more than 4,000 customers after a power outage along U.S. Highway 41. The cause of the outage is acknowledged

A utility pole was broken during an automobile accident in Berkeley. About 1000 customers were affected because of the power outage. Power was restored a couple of hours later.

More than 300,000 customers in the southern U.S. remained without following damaging weekend storms, leaving residents searching for relief as sweltering temperatures continued to scorch the region. At least one person in Oklahoma died due to the prolonged outages, officials said.

Over 233,00 customers in Illinois and over 288,00 in Indiana were without electricity, according to to USA TODAY Network's power outage database. Sangamon County, which encompasses Springfield, and Vermilion County lead with the most reported outages in Illinois.

Power outages affected many in the east after storms pushed through the state and off into the Eastern Carolina coast. According to Duke Energy, just over 2,000 customers in the east were without power.

More than 700,000 people across the Southeast and Ohio Valley were in the dark as powerful storms ripped through the US, unleashing strong winds, hail and tornado threats.

A squirrel in Minneapolis, Minnesota, disrupted a power transmission, causing a power cut, leaving around 9,500 people in the dark. The outage lasted about an hour before crews were able to restore most of the power, according to energy provider Xcel.

Motionless windmills, solar plant glitches, shuttered coal plants and low water levels create a recipe for widespread power outages this summer, the country’s leading watchdog on power grid reliability warns. An assessment from the North American Electric Reliability Corp. found that electrical grids powering two-thirds of the U.S. are “at risk of energy shortfalls” during summer heat waves.NERC officials warned Congress that the threat will likely worsen unless the U.S. “recalibrates” its effort to transform the nation’s power grid to renewable energy by focusing on reliability.

Some Entergy customers were without energy after a single car accident in Orange. Crews were working to restore power as quickly as possible. The cause of the outage was a single car accident. The accident resulted in more than 800 customers out of power.

A car accident caused a power outage that knocked out 490 homes north of Lakeshore Road, between Vine Street and Welland Canals Parkway, according to Alectra Utilities officials. Crews were dispatched to restore power.

Prolonged power outages, often caused by weather events, hit some parts of the US harder than others, according to new research. A new study identifies US communities that experience both high social vulnerability and frequent power outages. In these places, especially, a change in energy infrastructure provides the greatest opportunity to improve public health, researchers say

The Monongalia County Emergency Management Agency announced that 112 customers were out of power for part of the day. The outage affected residents north of Cheat Lake off U.S. 119 near the West Virginia/Pennsylvania state line, specifically on Camp Run Road.

Staff at a Swindon Tesco Express were forced to remove scores of frozen and refrigerated items from their shelves after a power cut. A spokesperson from Tesco later confirmed the power cut and the closure and said that engineers were on site trying to fix the problem.

Crews were working to restore power to thousands of residents in Michigan, where over 130,000 customers were in the dark, days after an icy winter storm passed through. The highest concentration of outages was in Hillsdale County, located in southern Michigan near the Ohio border, where roughly 38% of energy customers – over 8,000 homes and businesses – were in the dark

Over 350,000 customers were without power in Ohio as the Midwest faces a strengthening storm system causing powerful winds, severe thunderstorms and snow. The NWS warns that gusty winds could result in unsecured objects being blown around, tree limbs being blown down and additional power outages in the region.

Arkansas energy companies report thousands without power Friday evening as severe weather impacts Arkansans. More than 41,000 customers across Arkansas are in the dark.

More than 300,000 customers in Texas were without electricity because of localized outages, but the state’s main power grid remained stable, affected almost 200000 customers. Crews were working with frozen equipment to restore service.

Tens of thousands customers were without power days after a series of weather events brought heavy rain and strong winds to western Washington, according to KING 5's First Alert Weather Team. Crews were working in the area and restored services a couple of hours later.