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2017 Outage News
The North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) compiles reports
on outages. Click to go to their web site for a list of outages sorted by year.
The following is a list of news summaries of some major power outages and related
stories as reported in the media for this time period. The most recent are listed
first.
- California utilities turn off the electricity when wildfire risk is high
With the number of fires in the West growing, and a 2017 decision by the California Public Utilities Commission to require that a utility
-- not ratepayers -- pick up the costs for fires caused by its power lines, it's likely that Californians are going to see more deliberate, pre-planned power outages when there is extreme wildfire risk, experts say.
"The utilities are damned if they do, damned if they don't," said Frank Wolak, a Stanford University economics professor who has studied energy issues extensively.
There is now a web site covering these shutoffs by the big three California utilities SDGE, SCE, PG&E called
Public Safety Power Shutoff.
These power outages are forcing more consumers to install backup generators..
--The
Mercury News, December 7, 2017
and other sources
- 16+ million without power, 142 mph winds, Irma many
new records
Hurricane Irma sets many new records. Add the US
Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico and the number reaches 17 million. 16
million people are without power in the southeast US. This number far
exceeds Hurricane Sandy. 142 mph was the peak gust recorded in the US
(Naples FL). Hurricane Irma sustained winds of at least 180 mph for for
37 hours, longer than any storm on earth, on record.
--various news
reports such as The
Washington Post, September 12, 2017
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