Panhandle recovery continues; nearly 54,000 lack power after Isaias
Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday that all areas able to receive power should be reconnected by day's end, and he announced $27 million in grants for rural areas.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday that all areas able to receive power should be reconnected by day's end, and he announced $27 million in grants for rural areas.
The Public Service Commission approved the refund, which will result in a one-month reduction in base rates to reflect any "revenue over-recovery" charges from FPL, which serves more than 12 million Floridians across 43 counties.
Cuba's national energy grid has suffered a major failure, cutting power to the island's eastern provinces.
Typhoon Sinlaku came ashore on a chain of remote U.S. island territories in the Western Pacific, which includes Guam, on Tuesday. It was a super typhoon at the time.
Cuba has begun restarting its power grid after another nationwide blackout left millions without electricity.
According to Cuban authorities, about 45% of electricity service has been restored nationwide, but roughly half the country remains without power.
As left-wing extremists claim an attack that's plunged Berliners into the dark and cold, the mayor says it isn't "just arson or sabotage," it's terrorism.
Millions of people across Cuba were left without power on Wednesday after the national electrical grid collapsed.
Monday's still-unexplained power outage was the most severe ever to hit Spain and Portugal, which have a combined population of around 60 million people.
Crews were reported to be making progress restoring power to Puerto Rico after an island-wide blackout that affected the main international airport, several hospitals, and hotels filled with Easter vacationers.
All 1.4 million Luma Energy clients across Puerto Rico were without power on Wednesday. The blackout comes less than five months after another island-wide power outage on New Year's Eve.
Millions are in the dark after a power outage in Cuba occurred on Friday night.
Virtually all of Puerto Rico spent New Year's Eve without electricity as a power outage hit the U.S. territory, but the lights are slowly coming back on for 2025.
To make matters worse, the eastern portion of the island is dealing with Tropical Storm Oscar.
Many Cubans are waiting in anguish as electricity on much of the island has yet to be totally restored after days of blackout.
A major power plant failed in Cuba, affecting the entire national system and leaving millions without power.
A massive outage left millions of Cubans without power and prompted the government Friday to implement emergency measures to slash demand.
Cuba's electrical grid went offline Friday after one of the island's major power plants failed, the energy ministry said.
At least 17 people are dead as a result of Hurricane Milton, officials told CBS News.
Utility crews were working to restore power Thursday afternoon in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton.
Austin Carter reports nearly 3 million people lost electricity in Florida as Hurricane Milton crossed the state.
When bands from Hurricane Helene moved through South Florida, some 25,000 homes in Miami-Dade and Broward lost power, but the neighborhood of Las Olas Isles in Fort Lauderdale remained unaffected.
FPL spokesman Chris McGrath says they pre-staged crews so that after the worst of the storm passed they could get out quickly to impacted areas.
U.S. energy infrastructure has proven to be problematic as-is, and threats to its reliability are growing. Experts say there's a solution.
An electrical fire has left a Hialeah condo without power for days.
