"Electricity blackouts" refer to instances when the supply of electrical power to an area or a building is suddenly and completely cut off, causing all the lights, electronics, and appliances to stop working.
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Sentences with «electricity blackouts»
- Despite all the doomsday scenarios of electricity blackouts thrown into Travis Fisher's 2015 grid study for IER, (energyandpolicy.org)
- And citizen action has produced big changes — protection of the coastline through the creation of the California Coastal Act, a ban on new nuclear power plants, the recall of Gray Davis after rolling electricity blackouts and sky - high electricity prices, and more recently, a refusal to roll back stringent climate change regulation. (zocalopublicsquare.org)
- The poster child for this is the State of South Australia, which has now suffered from five state electricity blackouts in the last six months as a result of closing down dependable fossil fuel generating stations in favor of unreliable «renewable» sources. (carlineconomics.com)
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