Two California utilities said they may cut power to more than 900,000 customers for days starting after midnight Wednesday morning because of dry winds that could down power lines and cause fires.
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) announced Monday it may shut off power this week in nearly 30 northern California counties in response to strong and dry winds posing a fire threat.
Record amounts of snow have fallen in parts of Montana over the past few days -- and it's only September.
The attacks on Saudi Arabia's oil facilities should serve as a wake-up call about the vulnerabilities of America's own energy infrastructure, the country's top federal energy regulator told CNN Business on Monday.
A powerful typhoon in Japan has left one person dead, more than 100 flights canceled, and thousands of people stranded at the airport.
The dangerous eyewall of Hurricane Dorian moved just past the North Carolina coast Thursday night, bringing fierce winds and destructive tornadoes to coastal regions in the state.
Trains ground to a halt, homes went dark and cars wandered through intersections without functioning traffic lights as large swathes of London and southern England temporarily lost power Friday.
A vault fire in Irvine, California, sparked a power outage that shut down John Wayne Airport, police said.
A "flawed connection" between key pieces of equipment at a New York City electrical substation caused the July 13 power outage that plunged parts of the city that never sleeps into darkness, Con Edison said Monday.
On July 29, 1858, two steam-powered battleships met in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. There, they connected two ends of a 4,000 kilometer (2,500 mile) long, 1.5 centimeter (0.6 inch) wide cable, linking for the first time the European and North American continents by
Large swathes of Venezuela remained without power on Tuesday, the day after the country suffered its fourth nationwide blackout this year.
Severe weather and rainstorms in the Northeast left thousands of people without power Monday.
The brutal heat wave that engulfed more than half of the country, left tens of thousands without power and resulted in two deaths is finally coming to an end.
Just days after a power outage left part of New York City in darkness for hours, a major heat wave has officials eying the city's electric grid warily, urging people to stay cool with air conditioners -- but with restraint.
About 12,000 customers are without electricity in Madison, Wisconsin, during a dangerous heat wave, after fires at two downtown substations, according to local officials.
Officials in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, said a temporary fix has water running again after a main break left an estimated 220,000 customers without service Thursday.
Con Edison blamed their relay protection system Monday for the weekend power outage in New York City, saying the system didn't operate as designed, according to preliminary findings from the company.
The show must go on in New York, even if parts of Manhattan have lost power, forcing the evacuation of Broadway theaters and sending tens of thousands of people onto darkened streets.
Power was fully restored in New York early Sunday after an outage left parts of the city in darkness for hours, leaving thousands trapped in subway cars and elevators, and people guiding traffic at intersections.
On July 13, New York City went dark.
Power was starting to come back to parts of New York on a warm Saturday night as ConEdison restored electrical service on the west side of Manhattan after widespread power outages canceled shows and sent tens of thousands of people onto darkened streets, officials said.
Jolted by two major earthquakes and spontaneous fires, Southern California residents are nervously combing through the damage as thousands of aftershocks rattle the region.
A top United Nations official has warned of "serious implications for human rights" in parts of Myanmar after the government shut down mobile data networks.
Argentina's energy secretary said he does not believe a cyber attack caused a massive power outage that left tens of millions of people in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay in darkness for several hours on Sunday.
