Power Outage News in the US

Last week power outage was caused due to a "failed joint" in a roughly 7-foot-long feeder cable, which lead to disruptions on the Blue, Green and Orange lines.

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.

There was a power outage in the City of Allentown that left thousands without power and impacted street lights and traffic lights. This caused a fire within the substation which has since been put out, officials said.

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.

More than 200,000 residents in the New England region were without power after heavy rainfall and high winds hit the north-east region to the start off the week before Christmas.An additional 50,000 residents of New York state have lost power. Several parts of the region experienced record rainfall, with emergency responders carrying out water rescues amid flooding in several states.

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.

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.

More than 30,000 customers did not have power. Officials said downed trees and power lines were responsible for persistent outages. Adding to the misery was the continued presence of fallen trees and downed utility poles throughout the area.

Much of the U.S. power grid is at an increased risk of failure during major storms or prolonged cold snaps this winter, a top energy regulator warned.While the regulator said grids can handle normal winter loads, “any prolonged, wide-area cold snaps will be challenging” due to the extra strain that puts on power generators.

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

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.

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.

Multiple counties across Minnesota and North Dakota were without power after storms rolled through the region, Otter Tail Power is also reporting 149 outages in Richland County

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.