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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.
March 12— Indonesia —A power failure affected 13 million people in South Sumatra and Lampung. [ 75 ] July 13— Azerbaijan — Baku and nearly the entirety of the country experienced a blackout due to unknown causes. [ 76 ] April 30—United States—Nearly all of JEA 's 355,000 customers in Jacksonville, Florida, lost power.
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) is a nonprofit corporation based in Atlanta, Georgia, and formed on March 28, 2006, as the successor to the North American Electric Reliability Council (also known as NERC). The original NERC was formed on June 1, 1968, by the electric utility industry to promote the reliability and ...
The blackout affected some areas of Canada as well with a total of 10 million Canadians and 45 million Americans left without power. Today in history: Massive blackout hits Northeast US states ...
Michael Hardy 22:42, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC) That's not really an effective way of detecting power loss. A) not all web sites are hosted on-site. B) they may have backup power for telecommunications. C) power outages may not be complete; parts of a city may be without power while other parts are unaffected.
RM, Northeast Blackout of 2003 -> Northeast blackout of 2003, Uncontroversially Moved, 28 September 2011, request Inadequate situational awareness at FirstEnergy [ edit ] The fault alarm The primary cause of the loss of situational awareness was failure of the fault alarm part of a computer system.
Last point: the method of presenting the year should be consistent across all similar articles (policy dictates either 2003 Northeast America blackout <for my serving suggestion> or Northeast America blackout of 2003). I favour the later and coincidentally, I inadvertently moved the article to the later when I was undoing the original move as I ...
The February 13–17, 2021 North American winter storm was a crippling, large and major winter and ice storm that had widespread impacts across the United States, Northern Mexico, and parts of Canada from February 13 to 17, 2021. The storm, unofficially referred to as Winter Storm Uri by the Weather Channel, [ 14 ][ 15 ] started out in the ...