Two Million? Five Million? Real Size of U.S. Blackouts a Mystery
Two Million? Five Million? Real Size of U.S. Blackouts a Mystery Bloomberg 2/17/2021 Lynn Doan (Bloomberg) -- It’s not easy putting a number on what is undoubtedly the largest forced blackout in U.S. history. Popular Searches If you take the Texas power grid operator’s word for it, the rolling outages that have plunged much of the state into darkness amid an unprecedented cold blast have affected at least two million homes and businesses. If you trust a well-known website that scrapes data from 725 utility outage maps nationwide, it’s about 3.3 million in Texas alone, ...