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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 ...
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.
Eversource Energy is a publicly traded, Fortune 500 energy company headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut, and Boston, Massachusetts, with several regulated subsidiaries offering retail electricity, natural gas service and water service to approximately 4 million [7] customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire .
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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The Boston Edison Company ( BECo) was incorporated as the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston in 1886. [1] It was one of the earliest electric utility companies in the United States of America. The company was formally renamed the Boston Edison Company in June 1937, although it had also been previously known by this name informally. [2]
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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: