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(Reuters) – Over 1.6 million homes and businesses in the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida and other U.S. Southeastern and Midwestern states were still without power on Monday after Helene slammed into the Florida Panhandle as a major hurricane on Sept. 26, according to data from PowerOutage.us. Those outages were down from around 2.1 million earlier in the day as utilities continue to restore power. In total, the storm knocked out service to around 5.5 million customers. […]
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Tens of thousands of people in Australia’s southern island state of Tasmania were without power on Sunday after a cold front brought damaging winds and heavy rains, sparking flood warnings. “Around 30,000 customers are without power across the state this morning,” Tasnetworks, a state-owned power company, said on Facebook on Sunday. The nation’s weather forecaster said on its website that a cold front over Tasmania, population around 570,000 people, was moving away, “although […]
MELBOURNE, Feb 14, 2024 (AFP) – Storms packing powerful winds toppled trees, killed one person and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in eastern Australia, officials said Wednesday. The wild weather hit large swathes of Victoria on Tuesday, dumping torrents of rain and unleashing some gusts of more than 150 kilometres per hour (90 miles per hour), officials said. A 50-year-old dairy farmer was killed in the storm, apparently struck […]
SYDNEY, Jan 26, 2024 (AFP) A powerful category three cyclone crashed into northeastern Australia late on Thursday, leaving tens of thousands of homes without power. Severe Tropical Cyclone Kirrily packed winds of more than 160 kilometres (100 miles) per hour as it hit Townsville, home to 180,000 people, before rapidly weakening. Emergency services said that despite high winds, the storm caused no fatalities and minimal damage. But about 64,000 homes were said to be without […]
DHAKA, June 5, 2023 (AFP) – Cash-strapped Bangladesh shut its biggest power plant Monday because it was unable to afford the coal to fuel it, as a sweltering heatwave creates surging electricity demand. The 1,320-megawatt government-run Payra Power Plant in southern Bangladesh had already slashed production last month due to fuel shortages, but it was forced to go a step further on Monday, manager Shah Abdul Mawla told AFP. “Due to the coal shortage, the […]
Islamabad, Pakistan | AFP | Monday 1/23/2023 A massive power breakdown in Pakistan on Monday affected most of the country’s more than 220 million people, including in the mega cities of Karachi and Lahore. Local outages are common across Pakistan, and the national power system is a complex and delicate web where problems can quickly cascade. The hours-long outage, the second in two years, was caused by a fault in the national grid at around […]
Havana, Cuba | AFP | Cuba was plunged into darkness on Tuesday by a widespread blackout due to damage to its power network caused by Hurricane Ian, state electricity company Union Electrica said. The country is “without electrical service,” the company tweeted, after the powerful Category 3 storm slammed into the island nation. © Agence France-Presse
BEIJING, China (AFP) — More than five million people in southwest China were facing rolling power cuts Wednesday as a heatwave creates an electricity supply crunch that has forced factories to stop work. Temperatures across Sichuan province have surpassed 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in recent days, causing demand for air conditioning to spike. The region also relies heavily on dams to generate its electricity but the heat has caused reservoirs to dry up, […]
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — At least four people were killed during protests over the cost of electricity in a South African township on Monday, police officials said. Residents angry at the high cost of basic services barricaded roads with burning tyres and set ablaze a municipal building in Thembisa township northeast of the financial hub Johannesburg. Authorities said two people were killed in alleged police shootings after the protests broke out in the morning. […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s government warned on Tuesday of possible widespread electricity outages for Tokyo and its surrounding regions as power plants hit by last week’s powerful earthquake struggled to meet surging demand caused by a cold snap. Overnight, the government issued its first-ever electricity crunch warning for the capital and other regions, with supply dented because several thermal power plants remain offline after the quake. The industry ministry called on people to conserve […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) — Russian forces seized control of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant on Friday after a battle with Ukrainian troops that caused a fire and fears of a catastrophic accident. The Ukrainian nuclear regulator said that the fire had been extinguished and no radiation leak had been detected, with site staff still able to work at the Zaporizhzhia site. “The Zaporizhzhia NPP site has been seized by the military forces of the […]
PHL gov’t commits to “introduction of nuclear power energy into the State’s energy mix for power generation” (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte approved a proposal to review and develop nuclear energy plans and include “nuclear power energy” as among the options for power generation. Duterte signed Executive Order no. 164 adopting a “national position for a nuclear energy program” to ensure that the country has a “reliable, secure, sustainable, quality and affordable electricity […]
