Large parts of Bangladesh were left without power for several hours after a failure of the country’s national grid.
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Three storms in a week cause havoc across much of Britain’s electricity network.
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Kenya was hit by a near nationwide blackout following a series of transmission line failures.
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Around half a million people were left without electricity after Storm Arwen battered much of Britain.
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A “once in 50 years” storm causes a complete grid failure in South Australia leaving 1.7 million residents without electricity.
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Breakdown of electricity lines from neighbouring countries causes blackout affecting almost all of Italy and its 57 million population.
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More than a million people across Spain and Portugal were left without electricity after disruption to supplies from a high voltage interconnector in France. The incident occurred between 4:30 pm and 5 pm local time on Saturday 24 July. Red Eléctrica de España, which operates the electricity network in Spain, blamed a seaplane damaging the … Read More “Interconnector Failure In France Causes Outages Across Iberian Peninsula” »
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Government launches consultation into the creation of an independent Energy Future System Operator in proposals that would see National Grid lose its role of balancing demand with supply.
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Counting down some biggest blackouts the world has ever seen including electrical interruptions that left hundreds of millions of people in the dark.
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October 1987 saw the biggest storm to hit southern parts of the UK in almost 300 years kill 18 people, cause billions of pounds of damage and leave hundreds of thousands of homes without power.
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