Power Outage in West Columbia, TX

EIA study finds high solar penetration states showed resiliency to major power outages – pv magazine USA

The EIA study found that increasing solar states experienced outages of less than 102 minutes, while states with prohibitive markets for solar saw outages of more than 19 hours.

Power outages due to Hurricane Ian experienced in the state - ABC Columbia

One hospitalized after rollover crash caused power outage | Public Safety | newspressnow.com

One person was sent to Mosaic Life Care after a single-vehicle rollover crash that caused a small power outage Thursday afternoon.

Oregon Electrical Utilities Warn of Power Outages to Prevent Wildfires, Including in Portland’s West Hills

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Electric service to one of downtown Binghamton's tallest buildings was knocked out following a reported transformer explosion.

Why Power Outages Are Getting Worse In The U.S. - CNBC Africa Open menu Open menu

The average American experienced just over eight hours of power outages in 2020. The overall duration of power interruptions in the U.S. more than doubled over the past 5 years. Beyond just inconvenience, blackouts cost the U.S. an estimated $150 billion every year. They can also be fatal, as most recently seen during the 2021 outage in Texas. So why is the U.S. power grid so unreliable and can it be fixed? Despite the Biden administration’s effort to improve the situation, recent actions would suggest the federal government lacks the ability to enforce a grid modernization. There were a total of 549 policy and deployment actions on grid modernization during the second quarter of 2022, but of the $12.86 billion in investment under consideration, regulators only approved $478.7 million, according to the NC Clean Energy Technology Center. “Electricity systems are an area of shared federal and state jurisdictions,” according to Romany Webb, senior fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University. “The fact that we have this split authority between the federal government and the states is one of the factors that contributes to the complexity of the sort of modernizing the grid and building out additional infrastructure.” What’s more, certain state and regional regulators often have political incentives to fight against changes to the power grid. “The state entities that regulate electric utilities are called state public utility commissi…

West Columbia Health Clinic welcomes two new providers | Wbweekly | thefacts.com

West Columbia Health Clinic welcomed two new providers, allowing the clinic to extend its hours to 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

Sussex County and Morris County power outage after I-80 accident

80,000 customers were knocked out before crews started re-routing power to substations in Morris and Sussex counties.

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Power was reported still out to hundreds of NYSEG customers in Chenango County and Tioga County early August 5.

US Extreme Heat: Heat in the Pacific Northwest will intensify this week while the Northeast is expected to see relief | CNN Close icon

After searing heat suffocated large swaths of the US this weekend, the next few days are expected to bring more moderate temperatures to areas of the Northeast, while scorching weather in the Pacific Northwest will intensify.