Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
A power outage (also power cut, blackout or power failure) is a short- or long-term loss of the electric power to an area.
Read More at Wikipedia ›A power outage that affected 7 million people last month in the Southwest U.
S. and part of Mexico was not solely caused by a utility worker doing a minor repair job, as originally thought, utility officials said Wednesday.Federal officials and executives from California and Arizona utility companies said they still don't know exactly what happened the afternoon of Sept. 8, when power was knocked out for up to 12 hours from Arizona to southern California and into the northern part of Mexico's Baja California.While the utility employee's work on a transmission line at an Arizona substation was the first action in the chain of events, it should not have triggered a massive blackout because the system is built to quickly compensate for such glitches, utility officials said.Investigators have discovered that at least 20 events took place within an 11-minute period, said Stephen Berberich, president and CEO of the California Independent System Operator, or ISO, which operates the state's who...CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A power cut halts subway service in Venezuela's capital. It's sabotage, officials say. An explosion rocks a state-run iron plant. Sabotage ...
Venezuela will soon begin rationing electricity in several regions because of recurring power outages, the country's energy minister said Wednesday.Ali Rodriguez sai...
A power outage in New York left one woman dead, after a back-up generator in a rehabilitation center failed early Sunday, authorities said.A phase went down about 1:...
The nation's top nuclear regulator cast doubt Thursday on whether reactors in the U.S. are prepared for the type of days-long power outage that struck a nuclear powe...
SAN DIEGO -- Power has been restored to millions of people in the U.S. Southwest and Mexico after a massive blackout, but questions linger over how such a huge outag...
A raging forest fire in eastern Arizona that already forced thousands from their homes headed Wednesday for a pair of transmission lines that supply electricity to h...
Humanity needs to be much better prepared for massive solar storms, which can wreak havoc on our technology-dependent society, a prominent researcher warns.Powerful ...
Alex Iwashyna didn't realize how many of her neighbors in Richmond, Va., had backup generators until her own family bought one in the dark days after Hurricane Irene...
A blackout that swept across parts of the Southwest and Mexico apparently began with a single utility worker and a minor repair job.How it then rippled from that wor...
A massive power failure blacked out Brazil's two largest cities and other parts of Latin America's biggest nation for more than two hours late Tuesday, leaving milli...
A blackout hit a large swath of Venezuela on Thursday, darkening street lights, shutting down the Caracas subway and forcing President Hugo Chavez's government to re...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The first typhoon to lash the Philippines this year flooded parts of the capital, toppled power lines and killed at least 26 people Wednes...
Utility crews brought electricity back to much of California, Arizona and Mexico on Friday, a day after a power outage left millions in the dark, paralyzed freeways ...
The biggest electricity blackout to occur in the United States resulted in 90 additional deaths in New York City, caused both by accidents and disease-related proble...
California officials warn of rolling blackouts
Brazil emerged Wednesday from a widespread power outage that plunged as many as 60 million people into darkness for hours, prompting security fears and concern from ...
Monday night's game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the 49ers was postponed for 20 minutes due to a power outage in the San Francisco area, and the lights went o...
The San Francisco 49ers-Pittsburgh Steelers game delayed by multiple blackouts
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The government said Monday it is taking steps designed to prevent blackouts that have been hitting several regions across Venezuela, so the...
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