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  2. Omaha Public Power District - Wikipedia

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    Omaha Public Power District, or OPPD, is a public electric utility in the state of Nebraska. It is a publicly owned electric utility in the United States, serving more than 855,000 people in Omaha and 13 surrounding counties in southeast Nebraska. OPPD was formed in 1946 as a political subdivision of the State of Nebraska, taking over the ...

  3. List of major power outages - Wikipedia

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    June 30—India—Chennai suffered a major power outage that affected many parts of the city for more than 15 hours. July 11—United States—The Chicago area was hit by a large derecho which disrupted power to over 850,000. July 11—Cyprus—A half-week power outage affected all cities on the Greek part of the island. The outage was caused ...

  4. Downtown Detroit - Wikipedia

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    Downtown Detroit is the central business district and a residential area of the city of Detroit, Michigan, United States.Locally, downtown tends to refer to the 1.4 square mile region bordered by M-10 (Lodge Freeway) to the west, Interstate 75 (I-75, Fisher Freeway) to the north, I-375 (Chrysler Freeway) to the east, and the Detroit River to the south.

  5. Weather-related power outages are getting worse. What will it ...

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    Modernization of outdated power lines costs around $100,000 per mile, while new power lines can run anywhere from $1 million to $10 million per mile depending on geography and whether they are ...

  6. Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station - Wikipedia

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    The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station is a shut-down nuclear power plant located on 660 acres (2.7 km 2) between Fort Calhoun, and Blair, Nebraska adjacent to the Missouri River between mile markers 645.6 and 646.0. The utility has an easement for another 580 acres (2.3 km 2) which is maintained in a natural state.

  7. Michigan tornadoes trap workers in FedEx building, wipe out ...

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    More than 32,000 utility customers in Michigan were without power Tuesday night, according to utility tracker PowerOutage.us. Imagery of a strip mall barber shop in Portage showed its front ripped ...

  8. Northeast blackout of 2003 - Wikipedia

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    Deaths. Almost 100. The Northeast blackout of 2003 was a widespread power outage throughout parts of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, and most parts of the Canadian province of Ontario on Thursday, August 14, 2003, beginning just after 4:10 p.m. EDT. [1] Most places restored power by midnight (within 7 hours), some as early as 6 p ...

  9. Power outages in Houston: Check Centerpoint, Entergy ... - AOL

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    As of 2:00 p.m., Entergy Texas is reporting 1,207 customers affected by outages. As of 2:30 p.m., Centerpoint Energy reports 10,555 customers affected by outages. As of 2:30 p.m., Entergy Texas is ...