Blackouts

Spain’s energy network remains silent on the cause of the European blackout, but said a solar power failure was “very possible”.

Cuba’s communist regime suspended all education and work activities for Friday and Saturday in a last ditch desperate effort to “save power” in the face of Cuba’s barely functional power grid.

Protests against the communist Castro regime in Cuba continued Monday amidst near-endless power blackouts worsened by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake that hit Cuba’s southeastern coast on Sunday.

South Africa is exceeding its goal for cutting greenhouse gas emissions — thanks to regular blackouts that have become a daily feature of life in the country and have become a serious obstacle to economic growth.

(AFP) – A fresh barrage of Russian missiles battered Ukraine on Thursday, wounding at least five people including a teenager and cutting electricity in the west.

Ukraine is warning of another Russian offensive towards Kyiv (Kiev) in early 2023 as a fresh missile barrage causes power outages across the Eastern European country. 

The spectre of future energy blackouts is once again looming in Germany, with the country’s plan to cut consumption falling significantly short amid cold winter weather.

Around 700,000 households in Ireland are now in energy poverty as a result of the ongoing European Union gas crisis, MPs have claimed.

As a result of the ongoing energy crisis throughout Europe, Switzerland is considering a ban on the use of electric cars for non-essential purposes.

France may still see power cuts and therefore will seek to import energy from Britain and other European neighbours, a utility chairman said.

Germany’s massive energy crisis is “under control”, the country’s Chancellor has insisted despite repeated warnings of possible blackouts occurring over the coming months.

Emergency meetings on how to deal with possible energy shortages over the coming months are now being held by the UK government, reports claim.

Protesters gathered in front of a shuttered power station on Sunday to demonstrate against the Irish government’s banning of a natural and abundant fossil fuel just in time for the winter energy crisis.

Medium and large companies have reportedly been scrambling to purchase electricity generators amid fears that the country could see parts of its national grid collapse.

UK government officials are set to urge the general public to turn down their heating as fears over possible winter blackouts continue to loom.

Potential blackouts this winter in Britain have become more likely with repairs to a crucial underwater cable from France being delayed.

The UK government has reportedly begun “wargaming” scenarios in which energy blackouts could last up to one week amid gas shortages.

Germany’s federal police are now preparing for blackouts in the country amid fears that the country could completely run out of natural gas.

Germany could be completely out of gas by February, the country’s gas agency has said, with some experts saying that the country needs to cut consumption by 30 per cent to make it through the crisis intact.

Cuba’s Electrical Union (UNE), the state power company, confirmed on Tuesday night that the entire island had lost power as Hurricane Ian passed through, announcing “zero electric generation” on the part of any of its infrastructure.

The Prime Minister of Estonia has warned that her country faces blackouts if Russia disconnects the three Baltic states — all NATO and EU members — from its grid amid the ongoing Russo-Western sanctions war. 

Police in the German capital of Berlin are preparing emergency plans in anticipation of a possible collapse of the energy grid over the winter.

The Eiffel Tower has now officially been hit by energy rationing measures, with Parisian authorities announcing that the landmark will go dark earlier to save energy.

On Tuesday, 22,000 Denver residents were locked out of their thermostats to save energy.

California electricity regulators declared a “Flex Alert” as the state faced the possibility of rolling blackouts over the next several days.

China’s state-run Global Times on Friday harangued America and Europe for using coal power to make up for electricity shortfalls – even though China is building coal plants with wild abandon, digging up and importing mountains of coal to fuel them, and making it very clear that China’s industrial goals will not be compromised in any way to satisfy climate activists.

Communist Party authorities in Cuba arrested the mothers of two 11-year-old girls beaten by police last week while trying to defend the father of one of them from a violent assault by police during a protest, human rights activists confirmed on Wednesday.

Criminal barristers across England and Wales are to go on strike indefinitely from September 5th over an ongoing pay dispute with the British government.

China’s summertime energy crisis intensified on Wednesday with news that factories in Sichuan province have been ordered to halt production for at least six days.

Less than a month after proudly boasting its heavy use of coal-fired power plants would spare China from blackouts and keep its factories humming, China’s industrial provinces are imposing power restrictions to control soaring demand for electricity.

Households in the UK are reportedly facing the prospect of days of blackouts in the winter under an emergency energy rationing scheme.

Blackouts and brownouts as seen in California and Texas will spread across the U.S. if the “climate agenda” continues, Steve Milloy said.

The British public should turn down their heating and switch the time when they eat dinner this winter in order to avoid rolling blackouts, government advisors have warned.

Those struggling with the ongoing cost of living crisis may be paid not to use energy in the hopes of averting rolling blackouts.

Load-shedding is artificial scarcity. It is difficult to stop once it starts. We in the U.S. must change course while we still can.

Summer heat, shuttered power plants, and a clogged supply chain are straining the U.S electric grid, which could result in blackouts.