Power outages hit parts of Manhattan August 7, 2020 / 6:49 AM EDT / CBS News Parts of New York City suddenly lost power early Friday.

This year’s extreme weather events have highlighted the challenges of managing power outages for U. S.-based utility companies.

2020 was a record-breaking year for power outages in the United States, according to an Energy Information Administration (EIA) analysis published today.

We analyzed data from over 15 million consumers in 588 U.S. counties who lost power when hurricanes made landfall between January 2017 and October 2020. The results show that poorer communities ...

PG&E outages leave tens of thousands without power as fires tear through Northern California PG&E employees work in the utility’s emergency operations center in San Francisco in October 2019.

What to Know A statewide Flex Alert is one of the steps the operator of the state’s power grid can take to avoid unplanned power outages in extreme heat. The call to voluntarily conserve power is ...

Con Edison, New York City's main power provider, said on Tuesday that Tropical Storm Isaias caused the second largest power outage in the company's history. Only Superstorm Sandy caused more ...

The second day of school was canceled on 14 campuses across San Bernardino on Tuesday due to the outages, according to the local school district. The district said school would resume Wednesday ...

Casey and her team found that between 2018 and 2020, more than 231,000 power outages lasting more than an hour occurred nationwide. Of those, 17,484 stretched at least eight hours -- a duration ...

The body that runs the electric grid for most of California has declared a statewide Stage 3 emergency due to excessive heat driving up electricity use and straining the grid.