Sentences with phrase «periods of power outages»

As a result, many individuals — and businesses — were left with damaged property, long periods of power outages, and other unexpected situations to deal with.

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With a contract now in place between Tesla and the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), the battery «will help solve power outages, reduce intermittencies, and manage summertime peak load to support the reliability of South Australia's electrical infrastructure, providing enough power for more than 30,000 homes — approximately equal to the amount of homes that lost power during the blackout period last year,» Tesla said in a statement.

Though it doesn't break out the nuclear data separately, statistics from Europe's electricity industry association Eurelectric show both planned and unplanned outages mostly increased at thermal power plants in eight European countries examined, and periods of energy unavailability increased from around 12.8 percent in 2002 to 18.3 percent in 2011.

The facility has a system in place to provide continuous ongoing power to support critical equipment for an indefinite period of time in the event of a power outage.

As we know from the 2012 Derecho, widespread power outages can disable a city for extended periods of time.