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2019 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.
- Massive blackout in Argentina
BUENOS AIRES - A huge power outage hit Argentina and two neighboring countries
on Sunday June 16. Argentina's grid "collapsed" around 7 a.m. (1100 GMT), leaving the entire country without
power. The outage also cut electricity to much of neighboring Uruguay and swaths of Paraguay, and shut down YPF SA's La Plata refinery, Argentina's largest.
The root cause of the outage remained unknown and results of a full investigation
will not be available for 10 to 15 days. Residents of Buenos Aires, a city of nearly 16 million, awoke on
Father's Day to a nearly entirely dark city. The blackout hobbled public transportation, cut off water supplies,
shutdown service stations and stores, and crippled phone and internet communications for much of the
day.
--Reuters,
June 16, 2019.
- Over 1 million U.S. customers without power after Michael
More than 1 million homes and businesses on the U.S. East Coast were without power on Friday after Hurricane Michael and its remnants moved from Florida to Virginia. Some customers in the hardest hit parts of Florida may have to wait weeks for power to be restored, the utilities said. Michael blew ashore near Mexico Beach on Wednesday afternoon as probably the third most powerful storm in U.S. history, with winds of up to 155 miles per hour.
Michael grew from a tropical storm to a Category 4 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale in less than two days.
--various news
reports such as Reuters,
October 11, 2018.
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