2,000 Residents Without Power in Mississippi: August 3, 2008
August 4, 2008On August 3rd around 1.30 a.m. over 2,000 residents in Mississippi and Louisana lost power possibly from a thunderstorm.
560,000 Households Without Power in Central Japan: August 4, 2008
Toyko Electric Power announced that over 560,000 households in the Yamanashi Prefecture (central Japan) were without power due a major power outage-possibly from lightning.
20% of Downtown Vancouver Peninsula Customers Without Power: July 16, 2008
July 28, 2008For the first time since Monday morning, full power has been restored to downtown Vancouver. At its worst, roughly 2,200 Hydro customers - about 20 per cent of all customers in the downtown peninsula - lost electricity when an underground fire in a manhole destroyed 14 circuits around 9 a.m. Monday.
An entire office tower or [...]
Largest Blackout of the Year for New York: July 22, 2008
Con Edison reported 2,100 businesses and homes in the Brooklyn area were without power while temperatures reached 94 degrees.
Con Edison dispatched two customer service vans to the blackout areas, in Sunset Park on Third Avenue between 48th and 49th streets and in Borough Park at 10th Avenue and 41st Street. Dry ice was distributed in [...]
S. California Fire Knocks Out Transformers Leaving 25,000 Without Power: July 28, 2008
Transformers knocked out by a grass fire in Reche Canyon caused a power failure Tuesday afternoon that affected about 25,000 Southern California Edison customers.
Edison spokesman Jeremy Rawitch said the blackout hop-skotched through neighborhoods from Loma Linda and south Colton into San Bernardino.
The grass fire covered about a half-acre.
Heat Wave Creates Shanghai Power Shortage: July 2008
SHANGHAI, July 24 (Xinhua) — Shanghai, which has suffered through a heat wave for the past fortnight, is forecast to receive more hot weather, creating the possibility of a power shortage.
With the temperature soaring to 38.8 degrees Celsius on Thursday, the continuous searing hot weather caused electricity consumption to hit a record 22.43 million [...]
India Facing Major Power Shortage: July 2008
As reported by the Times of India: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-3281672,prtpage-1.cms
NEW DELHI: While our MPs argued about the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal in the Lok Sabha this week with speaker after speaker stating the obvious - the need for alternatives to fossil fuel - it wouldn’t take a tremendous leap of imagination to figure out why both the [...]
California Preparing for Possible Stage II Event: July 8-10, 2008
July 8, 2008California ISO Declares Flex-Alert
With a significant heat wave bearing down on California and the West this week and wild fires posing potential threats to the California power grid, the California Independent System Operator Corporation (California ISO) is declaring a Flex Alert for Tuesday, July 8, through Thursday, July 10. Consumers are urged to reduce their [...]
July 5, 2008: More than 15,000 in Alabama customers, including numerous businesses, were without power for about seven hours.
A lightning strike about 5:30 p.m. Saturday in Malbis fried transmission lines and knocked several substations off line, Riviera Utilities spokesman David Horton said, cutting power to about 15,000 customers in Spanish Fort, Daphne, Malbis and Montrose. A majority of customers — all, except for 350, Horton said — had power restored by 12:30 a.m. [...]
Over 200,000 Customers Without Power Again in Michigan-July 2, 2008
July 3, 2008July 2, 2008-Over 200,000 customers without power again in Michigan. A line of severe thunderstorms has swept across Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, bringing heavy rains, strong winds and hail and blacking out about 203,000 homes and businesses.
Jackson-based CMS Energy Corp. says about 153,000 of its customers had no electricity about 9:30 p.m. Detroit-based DTE Energy Co. [...]
