Thousands of people are still without power after Sunday’s wicked storms. While some communities are expected to have power restored at some point Monday, the majority of impacted areas may have to wait until 6 p.m. Wednesday for their electricity to return, according to FirstEnergy’s outage map. Here are outages as of 4:45 p.m. Monday (listed […]
Wednesday is the 10th anniversary of the Great Northeast Blackout of 2003. It put 55 million people in six states and Canada in the dark and it’s blamed on a perfect storm of problems that started right here with FirstEnergy. Could something like this happen again? The Eastlake FirstEnergy power plant was the first plant to […]
(CNN) — The cause of Sunday’s power outage at the Super Bowl in New Orleans has been traced to a newly installed electrical relay device meant to protect Superdome equipment, a power company and the device’s manufacturer said Friday. But the companies appear to be on different pages about whether human error was to blame. […]