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The most common actions that states took were "advanced metering infrastructure deployment" (19 states did this), smart grid deployment and "time-varying rates for residential customers". [13] Legislatively, in the first quarter of the year 82 relevant bills were introduced in different parts of the United States.
April—United States—PG&E customers in Oakland, California, and surrounding areas in Alameda County suffered a heat-related power outage. June 29—United States—A line of thunderstorms with hurricane-force winds swept from Iowa to the Mid-Atlantic coast and disrupted power to more than 3.8 million people in Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia ...
In five of the past 11 years, parts of the U.S. electrical grid have been hit by blackouts, shut-offs or close calls during cold weather. Experts say one reason is a recurring shortage of natural gas.
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.
As of Sunday morning, more than 20,000 homes and businesses were without power across four states according to PowerOutage.us: -Kansas: 10,458 outages -Missouri: 5,409 outages
2019 California power shutoffs; 2020–21 North American winter; C. 2000–2001 California electricity crisis; E. ... Electrical grid security in the United States; F.
In February 2021, the state of Texas suffered a major power crisis, which came about during three severe winter storms sweeping across the United States on February 10–11, [6] 13–17 (known as Winter Storm Uri), [7] and 15–20.
States with areas largely affected by the Southwest Blackout of 2011. The 2011 Southwest blackout, also known as the Great Blackout of 2011, [1] [2] was a widespread power outage that affected the San Diego–Tijuana area, southern Orange County, Imperial Valley, Mexicali Valley, Coachella Valley, and parts of Arizona. [3]