Weekend wind and storms pummeled the Northeast and Midwest—and thousands still don’t have power.
The numbers: 454K customers across PA, NY, NJ, CT, and MI were still without power Sunday night after severe weather took down trees and power lines this weekend. Thousands more in the midwest and southeast are facing power outages due to severe heat, bringing the total close to 1 million homes and businesses without power across the country.
On Friday, PJM directed customers in emergency electricity-reduction programs to limit their power use amid generator outages, overloaded transmission lines, and surges in A/C usage as temps soared.
By the way: The $6 billion Champlain Hudson Power Express transmission line (which started delivering power from Quebec to New York on June 1) went down Wednesday and Thursday. The line isn’t yet essential to the state’s power—but NYISO certainly needs all the power it can get, especially during extreme heat.