#power outage

The fire led to a power outage affecting thousands of customers, raising concerns about the stability of the network.

Montenegro, Bosnia and most of Croatia’s Adriatic coast where temperatures approached 40°C experienced a major power blackout on Friday.

The country’s 18 million inhabitants were left briefly in the dark as the outage struck the country.

The fire occurred at the Mooikloof substation.

The areas affected include Abuja and areas in Kogi State.

Ppower outages to traffic lights and a structure fire occurred on Monday in the town of Palm Beach, Florida.

A major power outage plunged Belize into darkness last week and left residents without electricity for several hours.

Gibraltar was plunged into a total blackout just before midnight on Sunday due to a fault in one of the North Mole power station’s two transformer enclosures.

A major technical fault at the Insukamini substation in Bulawayo triggered countrywide loss of power on the morning of January 4.

Ulsan suffered a major blackout early after midnight on Dec 20, the second time this month, after a cat short-circuited a substation.

A massive power outage hit the southeastern industrial city of Ulsan on Wednesday, leaving around 155,000 households without electricity for about two hours.

Suburbs across the east of Johannesburg have been without electricity since Saturday morning after a substation caught fire.

Almost 40,000 consumers in Chakan city and the MIDC area found themselves in the dark as the Alephata substation experienced a breakdown, causing a halt in power supply.

Unknown unmanned aerial vehicles attacked a substation, leaving residents of 67 settlements without electricity.

Fire crews in Cornwall were called out on Tuesday night after a tractor collided with a high voltage electricity transformer.

NorthWestern Energy blames squirrels for causing power outages affecting almost 15,000 people.

Hawaiian Electric is fighting outages and lawsuits caused by the wildfire that engulfed the Hawaiian island of Maui.

USA, San Francisco: Parts of San Francisco were left without power after an outage knocked out power to nearly 10,000 customers.

The winter storm that brought heavy snow, high winds and brutal cold across the USA has left hundreds of thousands without power on Christmas morning.

Duke Energy officials faced questions from state utility regulators in Raleigh on 12 December about the attack on two electrical substations in Moore County.

Duke Energy crews responded to widespread power outages this weekend and  found signs of vandalism of equipment at different sites.

USA, Florida: Duke Energy is mobilizing nearly 10,000 lineworkers, damage assessment and support personnel to safe locations in its Florida service areas.

Netherlands, Flevoland: Two incidents at electricity substations in the Dutch province of Flevoland have caused widespread power outages.

USA, Kansas City: A blown transformer caused roughly 10,500 Kansas City area residents to lose power on 13 June.