BLACKOUTS SKYROCKET AMID GLOBAL POLITICAL SERIES
Meanwhile, power disruptions played havoc with factories all over the world-especially in China-which made the post-pandemic global supply chain an even messier train wreck.Ī series of unfortunate events colluded to create this year’s energy crisis. China, which has spent the last five years trying to convince the world it was going green, rediscovered the virtues of cheap coal as soon as it didn’t have any. lawmakers who spent ages crowing about American energy dominance and growing oil and gas exports suddenly scrambled to raise the drawbridge. Russia chuckled as Europe begged for more of the gas it spent years trying to ditch.
Some factories cut back hours or closed altogether while consumers were forced into the streets. European governments came under fire as prices for natural gas and electricity skyrocketed. Ramifications were felt nearly everywhere. This fall has been marked by an energy crisis that seemed to pistol-whip every kind of fuel-coal, oil, natural gas, even renewables-in every conceivable country. And congressional hearings and televised fever dreams about gasoline prices in the United States.
Empty petrol stations in the United Kingdom. The temperature hit at least 40 C in all four cities, according to the National Weather Service.Record high power prices across Europe. Records for June were broken on Friday in Washington, Nashville, Tennessee and Louisville, Kentucky as well as Atlanta. That left managers and any crews the company can hire to fix whatever problems arise as 8.2 million New Yorkers crank up their air conditioners to beat the heat. In response, the firm told union members not to report for work on Sunday. The company said it had asked to extend negotiations for two more weeks but the union, which had threatened a strike by its 8,500 workers over a new contract, refused. Power utility Consolidated Edison Inc locked out its unionized workers early on Sunday after contract talks broke down, both sides said, raising the possibility of power cuts.
In New York, a heated labor dispute threatened to compound problems posed by the summer heat wave, which has already put an added strain on the electrical grid for New York City and suburban Westchester county. West Virginia was also hard-hit by storm-related outages, with about 614,000 customers without power, said Terrance Lively, spokesman for the state emergency management agency.įurther north, the storm caused outages from Indiana, where 135,000 customers lost power, to New Jersey, where Atlantic County declared a state of emergency and at least 206,000 customers were without power.
Governor John Kasich said it could take a week to fully restore power. Outages hit two-thirds of the state with about 1 million homes and businesses left without electricity. Ohio, where one storm-related death was reported, faced similar difficulties. They had been playing outside in 41-degree Celsius heat. And in eastern Tennessee, heat was blamed for the deaths of two brothers, ages 3 and 5, in Bradley County. In New Jersey, two cousins aged 2 and 7 were killed by a falling tree in a state park. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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