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Blackout USA 14/08/03
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 2 p.m. FirstEnergy Corp.'s Eastlake Unit 5, a 680-megawatt coal generation plant in Eastlake, Ohio, trips off. We had some transmission lines out of service, says Ralph DiNicola, spokesman for Akron, Ohio-based FirstEnergy;
 3:06 p.m. FirstEnergy's Chamberlin-Harding power transmission line, a 345-kilovolt power line in northeastern Ohio, trips. The company hasn't reported a cause, but the outage put extra strain on FirstEnergy's Hanna-Juniper line, the next to go dark;
 3:32 p.m. Extra power coursing through FirstEnergy's Hanna-Juniper 345-kilovolt line heats the wires, causing them to sag into a tree and trip;
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 3:41 p.m. An overload on First Energy's Star-South Canton 345-kilovolt line trips a breaker at the Star switching station;
 3:46 p.m. AEP's 345-kilovolt Tidd-Canton Control transmission line also trips;
 4:08 p.m. Utilities in Canada and the eastern United States see wild power swings. "It was a hopscotch event, not a big cascading domino effect,“;
 4:10 p.m. The Campbell No. 3 coal-fired power plant near Grand Haven, Michigan trips off. 
 4:10 p.m. A 345-kilovolt line known as Hampton-Thetford, in Michigan's thumb region, trips. 
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 4:10 p.m. A 345-kilovolt line known as Oneida-Majestic, in southeast Michigan, trips. 
 4:11 p.m. Orion Avon Lake Unit 9, a coal-fired power plant in Avon Lake, Ohio, trips. 
 4:11 p.m. A transmission line running along the Lake Erie shore to the Davis-Besse nuclear plant near Toledo, Ohio, trips. 
 4:11 p.m. A transmission line in northwest Ohio connecting Midway, Lemoyne and Foster substations trips. 
 4:11 p.m. The Perry Unit 1 nuclear reactor in Perry, Ohio, shuts down automatically after losing power. 
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 4:11 p.m. The FitzPatrick nuclear reactor in Oswego, New York, shuts down automatically after losing power. 
 4:12 p.m. The Bruce Nuclear station in Ontario, Canada, shuts down automatically after losing power. 
 4:12 p.m. Rochester Gas & Electric's Ginna nuclear plant near Rochester, New York, shuts down automatically after losing power. 
 4:12 p.m. Nine Mile Point nuclear reactor near Oswego, New York, shuts down automatically after losing power. 
 4:15 p.m. FirstEnergy's Sammis-Star 345-kilovolt line, in northeast Ohio, trips and reconnects a second time. 
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 4:16 p.m. Oyster Creek nuclear plant in Forked River, New Jersey, shuts down automatically because of power fluctuations on the grid. 
 4:17 p.m. The Enrico Fermi Nuclear plant near Detroit shuts down automatically after losing power. 
 4:17-4:21 p.m. Numerous power transmission lines in Michigan trip. 
 4:25 p.m. Indian Point nuclear power plants 2 and 3 in Buchanan, New York, shut down automatically after losing power.
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BLACKOUT BY THE NUMBERS • In three minutes, 21 power plants shut down, including 10 nuclear plants • 9,300 square miles covering the U.S. and Canada were without power • 9,500 police officers were out in New York overnight, up from the usual 1,000 to 2,000 • Seven airports grounded planes • 800 elevator rescues; 80,000 calls to 911; a record of 5,000emergency medical service calls; 60 serious blazes and 11 burglaries in New York City • More than 100 miners at a nickel mine were stranded underground in Ontario • Nearly 1 million lose water in Cleveland • About 50 million live in the affected region from New York north to Toronto and west to Detroit • The temperature was 92 degrees Fahrenheit in New York City
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“The massive blackout that struck the Northeast and upper Midwest, as well as parts of Canada, is a "wake-up call" to modernize the electricity system.”
George W. Bush
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2009
On 10 November, 22:13 Brasília official time,[72] power was cut out to most states of Brazil due to a failure of transmission lines from Itaipu Dam, the world's second largest hydroelectric dam, affecting over 80 million customers. The failure was caused by a major thunder storm which affected a key transmission line to southeastern Brazil causing the hydroelectric power-plant's all 20 turbines to shut-down due the abrupt fall of power demand. Four of Brazil's most densely populated states entirely lost electric power (including the states, and its capitals of the same name, of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro) with 14 more states being partly affected. The entire country of Paraguay experienced the power failure. It took about seven hours to the system to fully recover. This is regarded as one of the largest blackouts in man's history.[73][74][75]
2010
On 30 January, two separate transmission lines were hit by lightning, blacking out the Australian city of Darwin and the nearby cities of Katherine and Palmerston starting at about 06:00. Power was restored to all areas by 16:30.[76]
In early February, a pair of blizzards hit the Northeastern US on 5–6 February and again just a few days later on 9–10 February. Among the hardest hit areas was the Baltimore-Washington corridor, with well over 200,000 people impacted at the height of the outages and about two-thirds of those without power for periods lasting from half a day to several days. Other urban areas, such as Pittsburgh, were also hard-hit.[77]
On 14 March, roughly 15 million people, about 90% of the population of Chile, were left without power when a major transformer failed in southern Chile. Power began to be restored within a few hours, and almost all of the country had power by the following day. The outage was apparently not directly related to damage from the major earthquake that hit the country the previous month.[78]
On 14 March, a severe windstorm knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers primarily in southwestern Connecticut as well as parts of Westchester County and Long Island, and New Jersey as a result of a severe wind and rain storm. The outage lasted as long as six days for some customers in the hardest-hit communities. Many Public School districts were also closed for up to five days the following week. [4]
On 30 March, about 30,000 homes in Northern Ireland were also hit by a power cut, caused by winter weather conditions. Omagh, Enniskillen, Dungannon, Derry, Coleraine, and Ballymena were affected.[79]
On 27 June, Portsmouth UK suffered a massive blackout when a substation caught fire.[80]
On 15 July, 76,000 people in Oakland and Wayne counties in southeastern Michigan lost power at approximately 19:00 during heavy storms. As of 12:00 on 16 July, power still has not been restored.[81]
On 25 July, an estimated 250,000 Pepco customers lost power in the Washington, D.C. area, due to severe storms that swept through the area.[82]
On 1 September, Iceland experienced a massive power outage.
2011
The residential neighborhood of Los Navegantes, in Pichilemu (O'Higgins Region, Chile) during the 24 September blackout.
On 2 February, in Texas, forced outages at two major coal-fired power plants and high electricity demand due to cold weather caused rotating blackouts affecting more than one million customers.[83]
On 3 February, Cyclone Yasi hit communities in North Queensland, Australia. The cyclone with winds reaching up to 300 km/h (186mp/h) cause widespread damage through many communities. 170,000 homes lost electricity.[84]
 
On 4 February, at least eight states in northeastern Brazil — Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piaui, Rio Grande do Norte, and Sergipe — suffered from a major blackout from around 00:00 to 04:00. It is estimated that 53 million people were affected. Major cities like Salvador, Recife, and Fortaleza were completely out of power.[85]
 
On 22 February at 12:51, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, damaging large parts of Orion's sub-transmission and distribution network. Over 80 percent of the city (approximately 160,000 customers) lost power following the quake. A total of 82% of customers had their power restored in five days. Some
central city areas are still without power as of 1 May.[86]
On 27 April, one of America's most devastating tornado outbreaks knocked out power in most of northern Alabama, some 311 high tension truss towers were destroyed by multiple violent tornadoes.
On 30 June, Chennai suffered a major power outage that affected many parts of the city for more than 15 hours.[87]
Starting on 11 July, Cyprus suffered a half-week power outage, affecting all cities on Greek part of island. The outage was caused by an explosion next to the Vassilikos power plant, knocking out the plant.[88][89]
On 23 July, failure of a glass insulator caused an outage of most of Northern Saskatchewan for about four hours.[90]
On the morning of 11 July, the Chicagoland area was hit by a large derecho which knocked out power to over 850,000 according to ComEd.[91]
On 27–28 August, Hurricane Irene caused over five million power outages.[92]
On 8–9 September, widespread power outages affected parts of Southern California and Arizona, as well as parts of northwestern Mexico. Started by monitoring equipment that was causing problems at a power substation in southwest Arizona.[93][94][95] As of 17:08, power had been fully restored in the Yuma, Arizona area. Over five million people were affected.[96]
On 24 September, nine million people in north and central Chile were affected by a blackout that lasted for at least two hours.[97]
In late October, a snowstorm along the East Coast of the USA caused over two million power outages. Some residents of Connecticut and western Massachusetts were without electricity for over seven days.[98]
2012
On 4 April, a blackout hit every city in Cyprus after the Dhekelia power station failed (with a lack of electric power from 04:42 to 09:20).[99]
On 26 June, a large storm in Flathead county, Montana blew a tree down onto a substation. This took out the power in parts of the county for 9 hours.
On 29 June, a line of thunderstorms with hurricane-force winds swept from Iowa to the Mid-Atlantic coast and knocked out power to more than 3.8 million people in Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, North Carolina, Kentucky, and metropolitan Washington, DC.[100]
 
On 30 July, due to a massive breakdown in the northern grid, there was a major power failure which affected seven north Indian states, including Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Rajasthan.[101]
 
On 31 July, the July 2012 India blackout, which is being called the biggest ever power failure in the world, leaves half of India without electricity supply. This affected hundreds of trains, hundreds of thousands of households and other establishments as the grid that connects generating stations with customers collapsed for the second time in two days.[102]
2009
On 10 November, 22:13 Brasília official time,[72] power was cut out to most states of Brazil due to a failure of transmission lines from Itaipu Dam, the world's second largest hydroelectric dam, affecting over 80 million customers. The failure was caused by a major thunder storm which affected a key transmission line to southeastern Brazil causing the hydroelectric power-plant's all 20 turbines to shut-down due the abrupt fall of power demand. Four of Brazil's most densely populated states entirely lost electric power (including the states, and its capitals of the same name, of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro) with 14 more states being partly affected. The entire country of Paraguay experienced the power failure. It took about seven hours to the system to fully recover. This is regarded as one of the largest blackouts in man's history.[73][74][75]
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2010
On 30 January, two separate transmission lines were hit by lightning, blacking out the Australian city of Darwin and the nearby cities of Katherine and Palmerston starting at about 06:00. Power was restored to all areas by 16:30.[76]
In early February, a pair of blizzards hit the Northeastern US on 5–6 February and again just a few days later on 9–10 February. Among the hardest hit areas was the Baltimore-Washington corridor, with well over 200,000 people impacted at the height of the outages and about two-thirds of those without power for periods lasting from half a day to several days. Other urban areas, such as Pittsburgh, were also hard-hit.[77]
On 14 March, roughly 15 million people, about 90% of the population of Chile, were left without power when a major transformer failed in southern Chile. Power began to be restored within a few hours, and almost all of the country had power by the following day. The outage was apparently not directly related to damage from the major earthquake that hit the country the previous month.[78]
On 14 March, a severe windstorm knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers primarily in southwestern Connecticut as well as parts of Westchester County and Long Island, and New Jersey as a result of a severe wind and rain storm. The outage lasted as long as six days for some customers in the hardest-hit communities. Many Public School districts were also closed for up to five days the following week. [4]
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On 30 March, about 30,000 homes in Northern Ireland were also hit by a power cut, caused by winter weather conditions. Omagh, Enniskillen, Dungannon, Derry, Coleraine, and Ballymena were affected.[79]
On 27 June, Portsmouth UK suffered a massive blackout when a substation caught fire.[80]
On 15 July, 76,000 people in Oakland and Wayne counties in southeastern Michigan lost power at approximately 19:00 during heavy storms. As of 12:00 on 16 July, power still has not been restored.[81]
On 25 July, an estimated 250,000 Pepco customers lost power in the Washington, D.C. area, due to severe storms that swept through the area.[82]
On 1 September, Iceland experienced a massive power outage
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2011
The residential neighborhood of Los Navegantes, in Pichilemu (O'Higgins Region, Chile) during the 24 September blackout.
On 2 February, in Texas, forced outages at two major coal-fired power plants and high electricity demand due to cold weather caused rotating blackouts affecting more than one million customers.[83]
On 3 February, Cyclone Yasi hit communities in North Queensland, Australia. The cyclone with winds reaching up to 300 km/h (186mp/h) cause widespread damage through many communities. 170,000 homes lost electricity.[84] 
On 4 February, at least eight states in northeastern Brazil — Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piaui, Rio Grande do Norte, and Sergipe suffered from a major blackout from around 00:00 to 04:00. It is estimated that 53 million people were affected. Major cities like Salvador, Recife, and Fortaleza were completely out of power.[85] 
On 22 February at 12:51, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, damaging large parts of Orion's sub-transmission and distribution network. Over 80 percent of the city (approximately 160,000 customers) lost power following the quake. A total of 82% of customers had their power restored in five days. Some central city areas are still without power as of 1 May.[86]
On 27 April, one of America's most devastating tornado outbreaks knocked out power in most of northern Alabama, some 311 high tension truss towers were destroyed by multiple violent tornadoes.
On 30 June, Chennai suffered a major power outage that affected many parts of the city for more than 15 hours.[87]
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2012
On 4 April, a blackout hit every city in Cyprus after the Dhekelia power station failed (with a lack of electric power from 04:42 to 09:20).[99]
On 26 June, a large storm in Flathead county, Montana blew a tree down onto a substation. This took out the power in parts of the county for 9 hours.
On 29 June, a line of thunderstorms with hurricane-force winds swept from Iowa to the Mid-Atlantic coast and knocked out power to more than 3.8 million people in Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia,
Delaware, North Carolina, Kentucky, and metropolitan Washington, DC.[100]
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On 30 July, due to a massive breakdown in the northern grid, there was a major power failure which affected seven north Indian states, including Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Rajasthan.[101]
 
On 31 July, the July 2012 India blackout, which is being called the biggest ever power failure in the world, leaves half of India without electricity supply. This affected hundreds of trains, hundreds of thousands of households and other establishments as the grid that connects generating stations with customers collapsed for the second time in two days.700 M customers [102] 
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