Major Outage Forces Puerto Rico to Shutter Schools, Offices April 8, 2022 By Danica Coto SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — More than a million customers in Puerto Rico remained without electricity on Thursday after...
China Blasts Dam to Divert Floods That Killed at Least 25 July 22, 2021 BEIJING (AP) — China’s military has blasted a dam to release floodwaters threatening one of its most heavily populated provinces,...
In Texas’s Black-Swan Blackout, Everything Went Wrong at Once February 17, 2021 By Rachel Adams-Heard, Naureen S. Malik and Brian Eckhouse The finger-pointing began immediately: It was the frozen wind turbines that foolishly replaced traditional sources. No, fossil fuels were at...
FirstEnergy Had Big Stake in Tainted Nuclear Plant Bailout August 28, 2020 By Mark Gillispie and John Seewer CLEVELAND — FirstEnergy Corp. was once blamed for its part in triggering North America’s largest blackout nearly 20 years ago....
Mass Blackouts Across California Are Coming to an End — For Now November 1, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan, David R. Baker and Michael B. Marois A series of deliberate blackouts that affected millions of Californians this month is coming to an end. But wildfire season...
Californians Endure Blackouts Again as Wildfire Threat Increases October 24, 2019 By Mark Chediak, David R. Baker and Brian K. Sullivan California utilities are once again cutting electricity to prevent wildfires, in the first stage of a mass blackout that could...
California Utilities Warn of Power Cuts on Risk of Wildfire October 21, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan Almost two weeks after California utilities cut electricity to 2.3 million people, two major power providers warned they may have...
After Years of Fiery Hell, California Gets Less of a Scorching in 2019 October 18, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan and David R. Baker Mother Nature has given a bit of a break to California during the 2019 wildfire season, but firefighters say the...
Edison Report Ties Equipment to a Deadly Los Angeles Wildfire October 15, 2019 By David R. Baker and Mark Chediak California utility giant Edison International has sent state regulators a report on a deadly wildfire that broke out last week...
One Massive Blackout Is Over, Now California Braces for the Next October 14, 2019 By Lynn Doan, Mark Chediak and Hailey Waller An unprecedented blackout that plunged millions of Californians into the darkness for days is over. And nobody can say when...