Sentences with phrase «cause of a power outage»

«Given that the leading cause of power outages is extreme weather — which is exacerbated by climate change — the Trump administration's head - in - the - sand approach would actually undermine grid resiliency and reliability while promoting climate change and its catastrophic impacts,» he said.

And severe weather — the leading cause of power outages and fuel supply disruption in the United States — is projected to worsen.»

«In fact, bad weather remains the number one cause of power outages.»

Falling trees and tree limbs are a major cause of power outages during storms, and they can pose a hazard to homes, too.

Not exact matches

The storm passed just to the north of the island of Hispaniola, shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti, damaging roofs and causing flooding and power outages as it approached the Haitian side.

The storm passed just to the north of the island of Hispaniola, shared by Dominican Republic and Haiti, causing some damage to roofs, flooding and power outages as it approached the impoverished Haitian side, which is particularly vulnerable to hurricanes and rain, although it did not make landfall.

Last year, a string of strong hurricanes that hit airlines» hubs cost airlines hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue, but clearing runways from a snowstorm is a much faster process than recovering from the floods, power outages, structural damage to airports and other infrastructure damage that 2017's storms caused.

Unless different details emerge, this attack was not like the one on Ukraine's power grid — the first reported case of a «hacker - caused power outage.»

In terms of power restoration, FPL said «wrong trees in the wrong place» were the primary cause of Irma - related outages.

PREPA reports power out in Puerto Rico due to «failure of the Cambalache Manatee 230KV line» * This is the same line where there was failure last week - Yesterday, PREPA boss Ricardo Ramos said last weeks outage was caused by a «crane», signaling human error caused it

Some seniors at Century Village in Pembroke Pines talked about the difficulty of not having power and enduring the heat after Hurricane Irma caused a power outage.

The storms on the rugged coast of California are well known for causing power outages lasting up to a week, but that hasn't stopped Harvest Market from providing the community with a place to get some hot coffee and a meal or two.

Strong winds, with gust of 50 to 60 mph, along with heavy rain and snow took down trees, branches and power lines causing the outages.

ERIE COUNTY, NY — In extreme frigid weather like that arriving in Erie County today courtesy of a «Polar Vortex», residents may seek alternative methods to keep their homes warm and their houses supplied with power during outages caused by the storm.

«Hurricane Irene caused the greatest number of power outages on Long Island — 523,000 outages at peak — since Hurricane Gloria in 1985.

Smoke conditions in a Port Authority building near the Lincoln Tunnel caused a power outage and the closure of the center tube this afternoon, authorities said.

And Con Edison officials agreed, stating the trees were the main cause of the high number of power outages during both nor'easter s.

Mother Nature wasn't showing much love in the Hudson Valley Monday, whipping up winds that downed trees and power lines, causing thousands of power outages throughout the region.

Con Ed said Wednesday's nor» easter caused an additional 40,000 power outages — on top of the 20,000 customers who had been in the dark since Friday's snowstorm.

Hurricane - force winds caused the highest total number of power outages in the area since 2003.

Moreover, following the widespread power outages that occurred during Superstorm Sandy, greater detail is needed on how the system would function in the event of a disaster that causes power outages.

There have been a number of large - scale subway disruptions this year, including a recent Con Edison power outage that caused a delays on 12 lines.

Drops or outages in power across any part of the grid cause the frequency to dip locally, and PMUs make it possible to isolate the problem.

A 6.0 magnitude earthquake rocked wine country north of San Francisco early on Sunday, injuring dozens of people, two of them seriously, damaging historic buildings, setting some homes on fire and causing power outages around the picturesque town of Napa.

To date, these kinds of severe weather are among the leading causes of large - scale power outages in the United States.

We never really experience the breakdown of society; the random events that do occur — occasional power outages, incomplete radio transmission, speculative new reports — fail to cause anything other than ennui.

In the days after Hurricane Sandy battered the Eastern Seaboard, educators across multiple states faced the daunting task of reopening thousands of schools amid widespread power outages, flooding and wind damage, and other aftereffects of a storm that caused one of the largest disruptions to schooling in the United States in recent years.

Thaddeus Roth isn't your typical psychologist; he encourages Cadel's forays into the dark side of the online world and applauds and critiques his young charge as the boy manipulates the system to cause massive traffic jams and wide - scale power outages.

It was the equivalent of Diamond Comic Distributors having a power outage, causing every comic book store in North America to go dark.

If you go away for a week and a power outage causes the pipes to freeze in spite of you having left the thermostat at a reasonable position, there's coverage.

In that case, renters insurance in a flood zone isn't covering the flood, it's covering the result of a power outage regardless of the cause because there are specific provisions written into the policy for that purpose.

Freezing (You need to make a good faith effort to maintain the temperature, of course, but a power outage caused by a blizzard would mean there wasn't much you could or should have done differently)

This year's brutal winter did more than dump inch upon inch of snow on many U.S. regions; it caused power outages that killed customers» fish, leaving them with inactive tanks that many neglected to repopulate.

A power outage of one day could be enough to cause hypothermia (excessively cold body temperature) or hyperthermia (excessively hot body temperature) for some herptiles.

A lack of auto - saving caused me to lose data a few times due to power outages, crashes, or negligence on my part to remember to save before closing out of the game.

Of 300,000 initially out of power, we were in the last few hundred to be restored because our outage was caused by our tree dropping a branch on the line to our homOf 300,000 initially out of power, we were in the last few hundred to be restored because our outage was caused by our tree dropping a branch on the line to our homof power, we were in the last few hundred to be restored because our outage was caused by our tree dropping a branch on the line to our home.

Kevin Doyle, the executive director of CEA - Florida and a lobbyist for the group, said in his letter that Florida's electricity providers «should get some special attention» for their response to the widespread power outages caused by Hurricane Irma.

• Irma and Maria caused the longest power outage in U.S. history: an island - wide power outage for the 104,000 residents of the U.S. Virgin Islands that began on September 6.

Hurricane Irma also caused the loss of power to 30 % of Puerto Rico's 3.4 million people beginning on September 6; two weeks later, Hurricane Maria caused an island - wide power outage.

«The Polar Vortex caused 50,000 megawatts of power plant outages,» said Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski.

The trigger that caused me to write this page was the dishonest, shameful and criminal blaming of the South Australian power outages of September and December 2016, wholesale price spikes, and the load - shedding of February 2017 on renewable energy.

The gist of his case was that the recent short - term emergency that gave rise to price spikes was caused by coal - fired power station outages.

Irma comes less than two weeks after Hurricane Harvey smashed ashore in Texas, knocking offline almost a quarter of U.S. oil refining capacity and causing widespread damage, power outages and flooding.

As documented above, most of the power outages are being caused by «conventional» storms that are getting far more intense.

· And, the leading cause of electric power outages is electricity distribution system storm - related outages (not generation - related outages).

A power outage affecting 11,000 customers in the Sydney suburbs of Burwood and Strathfield at around the time of peak electricity demand (around 4 pm) was not caused by load - shedding, but would have reduced power demand at a critical time.

Extreme weather events caused by climate change increase the risk of power outages.

The Firm will not, nor will any entity that is part of the Firm, be deemed to be in breach of this Agreement for any failure or delay in performance caused by reasons beyond its reasonable control, including any natural calamity, act of God or a public enemy, act of any military, civil or regulatory authority, change in any law or regulation, disruption or outage of communications, power or other, failure to perform by any supplier or other third party, or any other cause beyond the reasonable control of the Firm (or any entity that is part of the Firm).

«A major storm blanketed parts of the Northeast in snow on Thursday, causing power outages, airport delays and flight cancellations.»

If you go away for a week and a power outage causes the pipes to freeze in spite of you having left the thermostat at a reasonable position, there's coverage.