Category: outages

Northeast Winter Storm Shuts Schools, Knocks Out Power

The start of a winter storm with heavy, wet snow caused a plane to slide off the runway and led to hundreds of school closings, canceled flights and thousands of power outages in parts of the Northeast on Tuesday. The storm’s path included parts of New England, upstate New York, northeastern Pennsylvania, and northern New…


Deep Freeze Leaves More Than 700,000 Without Power, Thousands of Flights Canceled

An arctic blast that gripped much of the United States on Saturday left more than 700,000 without power, at least 16 dead from weather-related car crashes and thousands stranded due to flight cancellations. Plummeting temperatures were expected to bring the coldest Christmas Eve on record, and energy systems across the country were strained by rising…


More Than 800,000 Without Power in United States From Winter Storms

More than 800,000 homes and businesses were without power in the eastern half of the United States and Texas as winter storms battered much of the country, according to data. U.S. utilities were working to restore power after the storms moved on from their service territories but some were still dealing with high winds. The…


More Than 800,000 Without Power in US From Winter Storms

More than 800,000 homes and businesses were without power in the eastern half of the United States and Texas as winter storms battered much of the country, according to data. U.S. utilities were working to restore power after the storms moved on from their service territories but some were still dealing with high winds. The…


Over Half a Million Without Power in US From Winter Storms

Over 500,000 homes and businesses were without power in the eastern half of the United States and Texas on Saturday as winter storms battered much of the country. U.S. utilities were working to restore power after the storms moved on from their service territories but some were still dealing with high winds. The greatest numbers…


Ukrainians Try to Conserve Electricity, Endure Water Outages After Russian Strikes

KYIV—Ukrainians conserved electricity and some went without running water to try to ease pressure on the grid and give engineers a chance to rebuild infrastructure destroyed by Russian strikes as Kyiv’s forces advanced towards the city of Kherson. The Ukrainian government on Thursday placed restrictions on electricity usage nationwide for the first time since Russia’s…


Oil Extends Rally on Kazakhstan Unrest, Libyan Outages

LONDON—Oil prices rose sharply on Thursday, extending a rally from the previous session, on escalating unrest in OPEC+ oil producer Kazakhstan and supply outages in Libya. The global benchmark Brent crude futures rose $1.09, or 1.4 percent, to $81.89 a barrel, by 1054 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures gained $1.17, or 1.5…


Around 422,000 in Texas Without Power From Storm Nicholas

More than 422,000 homes and businesses in Texas were still without power on Tuesday afternoon as utilities started restoring service faster than Tropical Storm Nicholas caused new outages, according to local utilities. That is down from 529,000 customers out in Texas at the peak on Tuesday morning. The center of Nicholas was located about 10…


Internet Outages Hit Australian Lenders, Central Bank

Australia’s central bank, the postal service, and several commercial lenders as well as other companies grappled with internet outages on Thursday, disrupting customer accounts and financial transactions before some services were restored late in the day. The Reserve Bank of Australia said on Thursday it was cancelling its operation to buy long-dated government bonds because…


Websites Across the Internet Disrupted by Outage at Cloud Company Fastly

Numerous websites were unavailable Tuesday after an apparent widespread outage at the cloud service company Fastly. Dozens of high-traffic websites including The New York Times, CNN, Twitch, and the United Kingdom government’s home page, could not be reached. San Francisco-based Fastly acknowledged a problem just before 10 a.m. GMT. It said in repeated updates on…