outage
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The outage affects an estimated 1.8 Bcf/d of natural gas from Appalachia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Transport secretary Heidi Alexander has called the outage "deeply frustrating".
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Crude futures fell as the supply fears fueled by the outage of Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline eased, and oil continued to make it through the Strait of Hormuz via ship-to-ship loadings and dark transits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
The country's entire electricity grid suffered "total disconnection" that triggered a nationwide outage, Cuba's energy ministry said.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Believing the outage was evidence of the Martian invasion, some townspeople packed up their families to escape into the mountains.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
More than 350,000 were in the dark in Florida and another 170,000 in Alabama saw outages, according to PowerOutage.us.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
As Anthropic leapt ahead in the AI race and its models gained traction with businesses, the company’s computing capacity wasn’t able to keep up and customers faced usage limits and outages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The latest strikes have caused rolling power outages and left parts of Kyiv without water for several hours earlier this week.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
That has left them vulnerable to strains from unplanned outages, natural disasters or conflicts.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
Of course, the problem with getting haircuts in the trading center was the frequent power outages that plagued the country.
From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba
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