Sentence examples for wider blackout from inspiring English sources
He said that sudden catastrophic failure could have caused an even wider blackout.
In New York City, power was shut off by officials struggling to head off a wider blackout.
Those two lines, Mr. Bruneel said, were owned by American Electric Power, and when they "tripped," or stopped transmitting power, that "pushed it past the point of no return," making a wider blackout inevitable.
By midday, Con Edison said there were breakdowns in 4 of the 24 feeders in the Madison Square network, which covers the area from 14th to 30th Streets, but Mr. Clendenin said there was no risk of a wider blackout.
At least eight power plants and 15 major transmission lines were knocked out by protective mechanisms, much like a circuit breaker in a house, designed to safeguard equipment and prevent wider blackouts.
The report urges that cheaper ways be found to put power lines underground, which would protect them from some effects of storms, and also calls for changes in infrastructure that would reduce the kind of mutual dependencies that result in wider blackouts.
It caused a state-wide blackout that plunged South Australia into darkness.
New York has had blackouts before: as recently as 2003, a city-wide blackout shut down operations, albeit without flooding.
"Despite the strike and partial state-wide blackout, we have not had any impact or instability on the Southern Power Grid for the last three days," Mr. Vijayanand said.
This may be why last week's state-wide blackout of South Australia – amid a terrible storm – has had such a heightened, emotional impact on the national imagination.
"Mr Uhlmann first reported on issues relating to the South Australian electricity network and the national energy market on 25 September, a week ahead of the recent system-wide blackout," she said.
