Sentence examples for blackouts occurring from inspiring English sources

Two massive power blackouts occurring on consecutive days last summer in India have highlighted the difficulties developing nations face when vulnerable power grids are taxed by the growing use of air conditioners.

Our roads are riddled with potholes and electrical blackouts occur.

Blackouts occur in nearly every area of the country several times a week.

While smaller blackouts occur reasonably frequently around the country, this appears to be the first time that any state has experienced a complete blackout.

Although it is easy to blame utilities when blackouts occur, state and federal leadership and a willingness to pay for grid upgrades have been lacking.

Limited blackouts occurred today across several hundred square miles of Northern California after a surge of power from Oregon put stress on California's grid, the authorities said.

The online blackouts occurred during periods ranging from 2 minutes to 1 hour and 51 minutes between November 1998 and April 2000, the exchange said.

"Radio blackouts occur for a lot of different reasons," says Bernard Loeb, director of the office of aviation safety at the N.T.S.B. "She's linking things in place and time that really don't make sense".

Lights flicker, and blackouts occur; at times "The Daedalus Effect" hints at an ominous place where technology doesn't amount to much but still has taken over the world.

Although California's troubles were in fact caused more by half-baked deregulation than any shortage of generating capacity (one recent study points out that the many blackouts occurred when demand was only 75percentt of available supply), it's much easier to cry for more power than it is to unravel the complex tangle of California energy politics.

Blackouts occur in power networks after cascading failures which separate the network into some uncontrolled islands.