Power Outages in the US (Page 2)

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.

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.

Large swaths of California’s tech hub Silicon Valley remained without electricity after the latest atmospheric river brought heavy rain and high winds that toppled power lines. Almost one-third of the homes and businesses in Santa Clara were without power. More than 180,000 customers in the San Francisco Bay Area were blacked out, service was later restored.

Michiganders across the state are haunted by painful memories of cold, dark days following nasty weather that at one point cut power to some 800,000 homes and businesses, with some people out for a week or more. Now state regulators want to hear about it. The commission wants to figure out what's causing so many outages, particularly after severe weather, and push the utilities to fix the issue, at outages.

Power crews were working to restore power to almost 1 million customers across the Great Lakes, South and mid-Atlantic states after a powerful winter storm made its way across the U.S. Wet, heavy snow and high winds left many without power in southeastern Michigan

Powerful wind gusts knocked out power to thousands of Mississippians on the heels of strong storms that rolled through the Magnolia State. Wind gusts as strong as 57 miles per hour were recorded at the Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport as remnants of the storm moved eastward.

A storm system marched eastward Friday, threatening heavy snow in the Midwest and Northeast after spawning likely tornadoes in Texas and Louisiana that damaged homes, businesses, a university campus and left thousands without power.

Close to 100,000 Californians were without power as gusty winds and winter storms continue to move through the state. Most of the outages have been occurring in Northern and Central California, as San Mateo County, just south of San Francisco.

An electrical fire at Terminal 1 at Kennedy International Airport caused a power outage that forced the diversion of flights to other terminals and even to other airports along the East Coast

The cause of a power failure which forced a light aircraft to ditch in the sea off Jersey’s south-east coast remains a mystery, an air accident report has concluded. An Air Accidents Investigation Branch report released this week has set out the final moments of the flight, but stated that the ’cause of the power loss was not established’.

Strong winds are causing damage and power outages across Kentucky. At least 37 Kentucky counties were under severe or moderate wind advisories. Fayette and Madison counties both had more than 1,500 customers without power. Other notable outage were in Pulaski County with 3,398 customers being without power, and in Pendleton County with 1,381 customers without power.

Nearly two weeks after a disastrous power failure at The Algonquin apartments on the boundary of Hyde Park and Kenwood, hundreds of residents are still unable to return home.This happened after a transformer blew because Mac Properties – in violation of building code – replaced the boilers with electric heaters, the department said.

Scattered power outages blamed on Tropical Storm Kay were affecting thousands of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power customers, prompting officials to schedule additional field crews to respond to situations throughout the coverage area. The utility urged residents to use caution around downed or dangling power lines or poles.