Hundreds of thousands of people are still without electricity after a major power outage across Chicago.
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Nationwide blackout hits Kenya and Uganda following a fault on a high voltage transmission line.
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Sunday wind storm leads to “record-breaking” number of power outages in Nashville, Tennessee.
Counting down some of the weirdest power cuts the world has ever seen.
California pre-emptively cuts power to millions of people to try and prevent the spread of devastating wildfires.
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Auckland loses power… again. We take a look at the history of blackouts that have plagued New Zealand’s largest city, including an infamous incident that took five weeks to resolve.
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The UK’s power supply system is built with resilience in mind. But as society becomes ever more reliant on electricity, the threats to our power continuity grow too. Let’s take a look at what could cause a UK-wide blackout…
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More than 30 million people across Northeastern USA and Canada in the dark for up to 13 hours following transmission line failure near Niagara Falls.
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A power line failure left thousands of people across four Central America countries without electricity.
More than 20 million people in and around Jakarta left without power for several hours.
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