Sentence examples for interrupting power from inspiring English sources

Interrupting power even for a few hours sometimes forces factories to shut all day, says the boss of a large chemical firm.

DUAL-CLUTCH TRANSMISSION: This automated manual gearbox changes ratios without interrupting power to the wheels; gears must be shifted in sequence.

The fire, in suburban Brook Park near the airport, caused the pole to fall onto lines, interrupting power shortly before 7 a.m., according to the airport and the FirstEnergy Corporation, the electric utility serving the area.

The lightning was the most devastating feature of a storm system that crashed down power lines and dropped mothball-sized hailstones, causing three-hour delays at airports and interrupting power to more than 100,000 homes in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey.

Plus -- be it cause by Mother Nature or humans -- most Americans just aren't prepared to deal with even a small-scale interruption in services, much less a larger disaster that interrupts power.

Chafing could cause a wire to short, and thus interrupt power to some backup systems.

The blackouts were the first in California since World War II and caused thousands of businesses to close and interrupted power to homes, hospitals, schools, theaters and shopping malls.

For example, he said, if the lights and the outlets were on the same circuit, and the wires that supply power to the outlets ran through the box where the light fixture was attached, it is possible that an incorrect reconnection of the wires that meet in the box could interrupt power to the outlets.

Testifying at a hearing here, members of Citizens Awareness Network said Entergy Nuclear had not pledged enough money to the Indian Point 3 plant in Buchanan, about 35 miles north of Manhattan, and the James A. FitzPatrick plant in Oswego County, to cover problems that could interrupt power production for six months or longer.

In 2002, an ice storm interrupted power to 1.3 million households in North Carolina, USA.

But, the consideration of intermittency as well as the volatile behaviour of the solar PV system forces incorporation of a battery storage system to overcome the fluctuated voltage profile and interrupted power supply, which raises the Cost of Energy (COE), Net Present Cost (NPC), and operating cost to another extent.