[75], On December 2, a winter storm damaged transmission systems, resulting in a blackout over much of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador affecting close to 100,000 customers. [145], On April 1, 2013, 100,000 people in Poland suffered under power outages due to heavy snowfall. In some areas of eastern Ontario, Canada and most of southern Québec, 964,000 people were affected. On February 2, in Texas, forced outages at two major coal-fired power plants and high electricity demand due to cold weather caused rolling blackouts affecting more than one million customers. [181], On September 20, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, knocking out power to the entire island. [236], On Monday, November 25, a wind storm ripped through Sydney, Australia, leaving 76,000 homes without power,[237] with 24,000 still in the dark on Wednesday, November 27. According to reports, as many as 300,000 customers in Toronto lost power. Oklahoma Gas & Electric called it “the worst storm in our company’s history”. [165], On March 31, because of technical problems, over 90% of Turkey (about 70 million people) went without power. This is regarded as one of the largest blackouts in history, 10 days fully restored. [74], In January, a cyber attack disrupted power service in three cities north of Rio de Janeiro, affecting tens of thousands of people.[75]. Power was restored to the entire region around 11:00 am. [140][141], Over the weekend of January 26 – February 5 ex-Tropical Cyclone Oswald caused the loss of power to over 250,000 customers in South East Queensland, Australia. [183], On October 30, combination of the remnants of tropical storm Philippe and an extratropical system resulted in approximately 1.8 million power outages in New England. [27], On the evening of February 2, power in parts of the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, The Bronx and Queens was lost following an explosion at Con Ed's Waterside power facility on 40th Street and 1st Avenue in Manhattan. The storm caused a domino effect of power outages throughout the Southeast of England. [96], On January 23, a severe windstorm knocked out power to 1.2 million customers in parts of France. [51], The 1999 Southern Brazil blackout was a widespread power outage (the largest ever at the time) that occurred in Brazil on March 11 to June 22, 1999. Hours after the late Saturday outage, Energy Minister Omar Ayub said on Twitter that power was being restored in phases, starting with Islamabad. Many people did not get their power back on for over 10 days in some of the worst hit areas. (CNN) A breakdown in Pakistan's national power grid plunged the country of 212 million people into darkness on Saturday night, officials said. The outage was caused by an explosion next to the Vassilikos power plant, shutting down the plant. The imbalance between generation and demand in each section resulted in the power outages for consumers.[80]. The blackout was due to a frequency drop resulted from a “fault” at Guddu at 11:41 p.m.[244], On January 10, outages related to snowfall were experienced across eastern Texas, which left over 100k customers without electrical power.[245]. No cause has been reported besides bad weather. On September 2, the 2003 southern Malaysia blackout resulted when a power failure affected five states (out of 13) in Malaysia, including the capital Kuala Lumpur, for five hours, starting at 10:00 am local time. [81], On April 26, Colombia experienced a nationwide blackout at approximately 10:15 am local time, caused by an undetermined technical failure at a substation in the capital city, Bogota, Colombia. [184], On December 7–10, a rare winter storm named Benji came through the southeast states of the United States, causing over 900k customers to lose power. On November 19, a severe ice storm affected the region around Spokane, Washington and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho causing power outages lasting up to two weeks. A previous nationwide power cut occurred on January 9, 2014, caused by a Delimara power station fault. At Grand Central Terminal power in the terminal was lost, but power on the tracks was retained because it runs on direct current. On August 14–28, the Northeast blackout of 2003, a wide-area power failure in the northeastern US and central Canada, affected over 55 million people, 14 days fully restored. See if your provider or service is having an outage or it's just you. On May 20, the entire island of Zanzibar suffered a complete shutdown of power. [229] The failure has been blamed on a lightning strike.[230]. Some television channels were halted for nearly two hours due to the outage. The first large outage was partially resolved by March 14,[201][202] but smaller outages persisted in some regions for days afterwards,[203] and a second multi-day outage began on March 25. This is now confirmed to be due to lightning strikes on power lines, which caused HECO's system to trip. [89][90], On April 2, 2008 around 420,000 households were left without power in Melbourne and in other parts of Victoria after the state was hit by winds of up to 130 km/h. Some customers were without power for minutes, while others were without for hours.[31]. The outage stemmed from two causes: a problem with the gas supply from Phoenix Park Gas Processors Ltd, which affected Trinidad, and a subsequent problem at the Cove power plant, which affected Tobago. The blackout disrupted metro and tram operation in Istanbul. This storm has been said to rival the Ice Storm of '98. [45], On July 2–3 in the United States, Canada and Mexico there were 2 million people that lost power due to a transmission line overheating in Idaho and a 230-kV line between Montana and Idaho tripping. This resulted in a blackout affecting over 50,000 households in the Tielerwaard and Bommelerwaard region in the Netherlands. The world's biggest power plant at the time, Itaipu, tried to support the load that was no longer being supplied by the 440 kV power plants, but the 750 kV AC lines and the 600 kV DC lines that connected the plant to the rest of the system could not take the load and tripped too. [159][160], On November 21, South Africa experienced rolling blackouts which were implemented nationwide, and continued for the duration of the weekend. Incidents Requests Crews Employees Equipment Cooperatives Client Testimonials Coop Discussion Board Help Documentation. [77], On August 14, a floating crane hit and broke a transmission line across the Edo River, interrupting power to 1,391,000 customers in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, including Tokyo, Yokohama and part of Kawasaki and Ichikawa. [151], On December 22, the December 2013 North American storm complex, covering an area from Ontario to as far east as the maritime provinces in Canada, caused power failures. [87], On February 26, a failed switch and fire at an electrical substation outside Miami triggered widespread blackouts in parts of Florida affecting four million people. On September 29, there was a power cut that affected the entire island of Tenerife, affecting almost one million people and carrying out dozens of emergency services, most of them people who had been trapped in elevators.[231]. 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