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  2. 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 ...

  3. List of major power outages - Wikipedia

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    January 30—United States—A major ice storm hit Kansas City, Missouri, knocking trees into power lines and blowing up transformers throughout the city. The outage affected more than 270,000 people. [74] March 12— Indonesia —A power failure affected 13 million people in South Sumatra and Lampung.

  4. Con Edison accused of overcharging NYC customers: What one ...

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    August 20, 2024 at 8:49 AM. NEW YORK CITY - The power company Con Edison is accused of overcharging customers to the tune of 100% higher than National Grid. "It began with complaints from ...

  5. Manhattan blackout of July 2019 - Wikipedia

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    The West Side of Manhattan in New York City experienced a power failure on July 13, 2019, at approximately 7 p.m. EDT. Con Edison is the energy utility serving the area, and they reported that approximately 73,000 customers were without power. Power was fully restored by midnight. The power failure occurred on the 42nd anniversary of the New ...

  6. Met-Ed power outages continue to rise, now near 8,000 ... - AOL

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    Sep. 1—Met-Ed is reporting at 8:45 p.m. Wednesday that nearly 8,000 customers in Berks County are without power during the passage of Tropical Rainstorm Ida, while emergency fire crews deal with ...

  7. Ramapo Fault - Wikipedia

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    Ramapo Fault. The Ramapo Fault zone is a system of faults between the northern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont areas to the east. [1] Spanning more than 185 miles (298 km) in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, it is perhaps the best known fault zone in the Mid-Atlantic region, and some small earthquakes have been known to occur in its ...

  8. Consolidated Edison - Wikipedia

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    Website. coned.com. Con Ed plant on the East River at 15th Street in Manhattan, New York City. Consolidated Edison, Inc., commonly known as Con Edison (stylized as conEdison) or ConEd, is one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the United States, with approximately $12 billion in annual revenues as of 2017, and over $62 billion in ...

  9. Outage knocks out power for thousands in SLO County ... - AOL

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    September 13, 2024 at 10:35 PM. Thousands were without power — and one high school football game was in danger of being called off — after an outage cut electricity to much of Nipomo on Friday ...