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The balloons made contact with a distribution line in Hamlin around 4:35 a.m., which caused a breaker at a nearby power station to break, according to a spokesman from the utility company.
SAN JUAN (Reuters) -Puerto Ricans were without electricity on New Year's Eve after a grid failure left nearly all of the island without power. Around 87% of clients were without power at 1 p.m. on ...
Shares were 19.9% higher as of 12:40 p.m. ET Monday after reports that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rejected a request to increase the amount of power from a nuclear plant.
Less than two weeks prior to the Moore County substation incident, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had sent a report to private industry in which they stated that there had been an increase in reported threats to electric infrastructure from people who espouse “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist ideology", with an aim of creating civil disorder and inspiring further ...
The demand, or load on an electrical grid is the total electrical power being removed by the users of the grid. The graph of the demand over time is called the demand curve. Baseload is the minimum load on the grid over any given period, peak demand is the maximum load. Historically, baseload was commonly met by equipment that was relatively ...
HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finland's national power grid operator said on Thursday it had asked a Helsinki court to seize the Eagle S oil tanker in a bid to secure the company's claim for damages related ...
From 1996 to 1999, the FERC made a series of decisions which resulted in the restructuring of the U.S. electric utility industry. The FERC's intention in doing so was to open the wholesale power market to new players, with the hope that spurring competition would save consumers $4 to $5 billion per year and encourage technical innovation in the industry.
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