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This is a list of notable wide-scale power outages. To be included, the power outage must conform to all of the following criteria: The outage must not be planned by the service provider. The outage must affect at least 1,000 people. The outage must last at least one hour. There must be at least 1,000,000 person-hours of disruption. For example:
2012 India blackouts. Two severe power outages affected most of northern and eastern India on 30 and 31 July 2012. The 30 July 2012 blackout affected over 400 million people and lasted about 13.5 hrs. During that period, it was the largest power outage in history by number of people affected, beating the January 2001 blackout in Northern India ...
A room during load shedding at night in West Bengal, India. A rolling blackout, also referred to as rota or rotational load shedding, rota disconnection, feeder rotation, or a rotating outage, is an intentionally engineered electrical power shutdown in which electricity delivery is stopped for non-overlapping periods of time over different parts of the distribution region.
The outage map highlights the regions in Dallas County with the most significant number of outages. As of approximately 9:30 a.m., 356,159 customers are without power in Dallas County.
To report a power outage or check the status of an outage, text OUT to 66267, use the MyOncor app, click “Report an Outage” on the map on the Oncor website, or call 888-313-4747.
To report an outage text OUT to 66267, use the MyOncor app, call 888-313-4747, or select “Report an Outage” at stormcenter.oncor.com, where you can also see a map showing the outages. The ...
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 ...
Oncor’s outage map showed over 15,000 customers without power about 10:30 a.m. Monday as crews worked to restore electricity to areas experiencing outages, with about 350 of those in Tarrant ...