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Face the next power outage with a generator or solar arrays
Hunterdon County Democrat - NJ.com
Dealing with possible power outages is very much on everyone's mind. Fortunately, there are some things people can do to prepare. Homeowners and businesses don't have to go dark when the electric lines stop humming. "We went eight days without power ...

Unsafe power poles contributed to massive Southern California power outage ...
Washington Post
LOS ANGELES - Southern California Edison overloading some power poles and botched efforts to restore power, contributing to massive electrical outages from a windstorm last fall, state regulators said. At least 21 of the 215 wooden utility poles that ...
Edison accused of pole overloading againMalibu Times

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PSNH Investigate Pittsfield-Barnstead Power Outage
WMUR Manchester
BARNSTEAD, NH -- PSNH crews say they are investigating the cause of a large power outage in the Pittsfield-Barnstead area. About 3600 customers were without power Sunday afternoon just hours before Super Bowl XLVI. Local pizza shops said they were also ...

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Byron Generating Station Power Failure: Tests Show No Radiation Increase
Huffington Post
Monday's outage started when an electrical insulator failed and fell off the metal structure that it was attached to. That interrupted power and caused the reactor to automatically shut down as a precaution.
Lab tests show no measurable increase in radiation at northern Illinois ...Washington Post (blog)
Air samples near Byron nuclear plant come back cleanWREX-TV

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Our desire for stuff, not utilities, might be to blame for outage
TheNewsTribune.com
We love our power. That's our problem. At its peak, the ice storm of Jan. 19 knocked out the juice for 270000 Puget Sound Energy customers. Some waited a week for the lights to come back on. We love our trees. We love our power. That's our problem.

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Some gems emerge when rediscovering life without power
The Olympian
We survived January's big snow and ice storm, and power outage, which at times felt like we were living in a modern-day version of Laura Ingalls Wilder's "The Long Winter." We covered our drafty windows with quilts, turned the living room couches into ...

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Answer to outages raises worries in Franklin
Gloucester County Times - NJ.com
Atlantic City Electric is set to address power outage issues that have kept Franklin Township residents in the dark following some storms. But the power company's proposed remedy – a new distribution substation in a residential area here – has nearby ...

Downed power lines cause fire, outage near Garberville
Times-Standard
Ninety-nine Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers were without power Saturday after downed power lines caused a fire and power outage near the Garberville area. According to PG&E, the fire was on Bell Springs Road, two miles past the New Harris ...

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Solving the Power Outage: Internal Solutions
SoDo Mojo
The first in-house guy who will solve the power outage is Justin Smoak. Last year, Smoak had a great first half of the season, but he struggled later due to slumps and an injury inflicted by a bad hop. If you look at just his first half, ...

National Post (blog)

Pyongyang's worst power outage in years leaves North Korean capital freezing ...
National Post (blog)
By Jeremy Laurence SEOUL - North Korea's capital faces its worst electricity shortages in years just as a new leadership takes power in the impoverished state and pushes ahead with lavish building projects to celebrate the centenary of its founder's ...

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