Apr. 06, 2022 11:12 AM EDT
Power outages from severe weather across the U.S. have doubled over the past two decades, as a warming climate stirs more destructive storms that cripple broad segments of the nation’s aging electrical grid, according to an Associated Press analysis of government data.
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Apr. 05, 2022 23:29 PM EDT
Power outages from severe weather have doubled over the past two decades across the U.S., as a warming climate stirs more destructive storms that cripple broad segments of the nation’s aging electrical grid, according to an Associated Press analysis of government data.
Forty...
Mar. 14, 2022 16:41 PM EDT
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Chris Kinney, a resident of Rapides Parish in central Louisiana, has seen his electricity disconnected eight times in nearly three years for falling behind on his energy bills to Cleco Power.
His family did everything they could think of to catch up: pawning...
Feb. 23, 2022 17:34 PM EST
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — State regulators have approved a plan in which Entergy Louisiana customers will pay for $3.2 billion in costs the utility incurred because of five storms that hit the state in 2020 and 2021.
The Daily Advertiser reports that the Louisiana Public Service...