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Deaths. Almost 100. The Northeast blackout of 2003 was a widespread power outage throughout parts of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, and most parts of the Canadian province of Ontario on Thursday, August 14, 2003, beginning just after 4:10 p.m. EDT. [1] Most places restored power by midnight (within 7 hours), some as early as 6 p ...
This is a list of notable wide-scale power outages. To be included, the power outage must conform to all of the following criteria: The outage must not be planned by the service provider. The outage must affect at least 1,000 people. The outage must last at least one hour. There must be at least 1,000,000 person-hours of disruption. For example:
In 2021, Massachusetts had a total summer capacity of 13,002 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 18,214 GWh. The electrical energy generation mix in 2022 was 74.1% natural gas, 9.5% solar, 4.6% biomass, 3.5% petroleum, 2.9% hydroelectric, 1% wind, and 4.4% other.
Many residents might not see full power restoration until late Thursday night, according to National Grid, whose outage map showed 31,822 customers in Plymouth County and 14,872 in Norfolk County ...
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60–100 homes [5] On September 13, 2018, excessive pressure in natural gas lines owned by Columbia Gas of Massachusetts caused a series of explosions and fires to occur in as many as 40 homes, with over 80 individual fires, in the towns of Lawrence, Andover, and North Andover, all within the Merrimack Valley, in Massachusetts, United States.
The 2011 Southwest blackout, also known as the Great Blackout of 2011, [1] [2] was a widespread power outage that affected the San Diego–Tijuana area, southern Orange County, Imperial Valley, Mexicali Valley, Coachella Valley, and parts of Arizona. [3] It occurred on Thursday, September 8, 2011, beginning at about 3:38pm PDT, and was the ...