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- The Northeast Blackout of 1965 on November 9, 1965.
- The New York City Blackout of July 13-14, 1977, resulted in looting and rioting.
- On December 19, 1978, a major blackout affected 80% of France.
- The Great Storm of 1987 brought down power lines throughout southern England causing extensive blackouts.
- On March 13, 1989, a geomagnetic storm caused the Hydro-Quebec power failure which left 6 million people without power for 9 or more hours.
- On August 11, 1996, the Western Intertie buckled under high summer heat, causing a cascading power failure affecting nine western states and parts of Mexico.
- The January 1998 Ice Storm in northeastern North America caused prolonged blackouts, particularly in Quebec where many transmission towers were destroyed by ice.
- From 20 February to 27 March 1998, the entire Central Business District of Auckland, New Zealand was without power: see 1998 Auckland power crisis
- The Esso Longford gas explosion on 25 September 1998, which caused a complete loss of gas supplies to the entire state of Victoria, Australia for 2 weeks
- San Francisco, CA and environs - December 8, 1998 - this outage effected over 350,000 consumers when the PG&E utility placed a San Mateo sub-station online at 8.17am PST, while the station was still grounded following maintenance. This drew so much power from the Peninsula transmission lines that 25 other sub-stations in San Francisco automatically and immediately shut down. Power was not fully restored until almost 4pm the same day. Economic costs were estimated in tens of millions of dollars.
- On July 29, 1999 in Taiwan the #326 transmission tower collapsed due to a landslide, which disconnected around 8.46 million electricity consumers.
- On May 9, 2000, a stork caused the Southern Portugal Blackout of 2000.
- During the 12-month California electricity crisis of 2000-01, there were regular power failures due to energy shortages.
- On August 14, 2003, there was a wide-area power failure in the northeastern USA and central Canada, affecting 50 million people: see 2003 North American blackout.
- There was a 2003 London blackout on August 28 which won worldwide headlines such as "Power cut cripples London" but in fact only affected 500,000 people.
- On September 2, 2003, a power failure affected 5 states (out of 13) in Malaysia Kuala Lumpur) for 5 hours starting at 10 am local time: see 2003 southern Malaysia blackout. (including the capital
- On September 19, 2006, Hurricane Isabel knocked out electricity for 4.3 million people across nine US states and parts of Ontario, Canada.
- On September 23, 2003, a power failure affected 5 million people in Denmark Sweden. and southern
- On September 27-28, 2003, a power failure affected all of Italy except Sardinia, cutting service to more than 56 million people. (see 2003 Italy blackout)
- On December 20, 2003, a power failure hit San Francisco, affecting 120,000 people.
- On June 29, 2004, a disruption in natural gas supplies from Indonesia caused a widespread blackout in the northern, eastern and western parts of Singapore.
- On September 4, 2004, five million people in Florida were without power at one point due to Hurricane Frances, one of the most widespread outages ever due to a hurricane.
- On September 15, 2004, the government of Puerto Rico decided to shut down the island's power to prevent damage to the lines during Hurricane Jeanne.
- On January 8, 2005, about 341,000 homes lost power in Sweden and several thousand of these were out of power for many days and even weeks in some cases. Power outage was because of the storm Erwin with wind speeds of up to 126 km/h.
- On May 25, 2005, most of Moscow was without power from 11:00 MSK (+0300 UTC). Approximately ten million people were affected. Power was restored within 24 hours.
- On June 16, 2005 2/3 of the people of Puerto Rico lost power due al 250KV line damage. The power was restored the same night.
- On August 18, 2005, almost 100 million people on Java Island, the main island of Indonesia which the capital Jakarta is on, and the isle of Bali, lost power for 7 hours. In terms of population affected, the 2005 Java-Bali Blackout was the biggest in history.
- On August 22, 2005, all of southern and central Iraq, including parts of the capital Baghdad, all of the second largest city Basra and the only port Umm Qasr went out of power for more than 7 hours after a feeder line was sabotaged by insurgents, causing a cascading effect shutting down multiple power plants.
- On August 26, 2005 1.3 Million People in South Florida lost power due to downed trees and power lines caused by the then category 1 Hurricane Katrina. Most customers affected were without power for four days, and some customers had no power for up to one week.
- On August 29, 2005 Millions of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama residents lost power after a stronger Hurricane Katrina badly damaged the power grid.
- On September 12, 2005, a blackout in Los Angeles affected millions in California. Final report on the causes.
- On October 24, 2005, Hurricane Wilma caused loss of power for 3.2 million customers in South Florida and Southwest Florida, with hundreds of thousands of customers still powerless a week later, and full restoration not complete until November 11.
- 2006 Auckland Blackout: On June 12, 2006, half of Auckland, the largest city in New Zealand, suffers an 8-hour long power outage affecting 230,000 customers due to a major powerline being destroyed by high winds.
- July 17, 2006 : Nearly half a million customers in Ontario and Quebec were affected after derechos and other isolated severe thunderstorms tore through those two provinces. See : Great Lakes-Atlantic Coast derecho
- Outages stemming from the 2006 North American heat wave:
  - 2006 Queens blackout: On July 18, 2006, and continuing for over one week, upwards of 50,000 Queens, New York, and Westchester County Con Edison customers lost power due to excessive heat and dilapidated infrastructure. In Astoria, several power lines and transformers caught fire, melted, or failed as Con Edison attempted to restore service. Two air control towers at LaGuardia Airport lost power briefly on the 18th, resulting in the cancellation of some 45 flights and re-routing of 11 others. Subway service on several Queens lines (7, E, F, N, R, V, and W) was suspended and/or reduced throughout the outage. On July 20, Con Edison announced that approximately 2,500 Queens customers were still without power. On July 21, Con Edison announced a revised estimate of "at least 25,000." On the same day, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg stated that Con Edison's definition of "customer" referred to each building they provided power and that the number of people without power was possibly 100,000. More than 3,000 Con Edison customers - an estimated 10,000 people - remain without power as of July 24, 2006.
  - On July 19, 2006, "at least 486,000" customers lost power in the greater St. Louis, Missouri, area due to 80-mile-per-hour winds and thunderstorms that rolled through the area. Two-thirds of Lambert-St. Louis International Airport was out of power, stranding hundreds who slept on the concourses. A portion of the airport's roof sheared off and flew onto Interstate 70, closing lanes. A heat advisory for the area was issued due to temperatures reaching as high as 104ºF.
- 2006 Delaware Valley blackout: On July 18, 2006, upwards of 365,000 PECO Philadelphia area lost power due to violent storms with 71-mph winds, which left two dead and thousands of dollars in property damage. In addition, around 26,000 homes were without power in New Jersey, as well as thousands in the Northeast stretching from rural Pennsylvania to southwestern Connecticut. customers of the
- On July 22, 2006, parts of greater London, U.K., lost power. EDF Energy stated the reason was due to a higher energy demand, as more customers are using air conditioning in England's capital due to the 2006 European heat wave; more blackouts occoured right up to the July 27. Similar blackouts have affected the county of Kent due to the drought.
- On August 1, 2006, in the Laurentians, in the province of Québec, Canada, a large amount (146,000, at its peak in the evening of August 1st) of households were left without electricity for a whole day, and some for up to a whole week due to intense thunderstorms that rolled through southern Quebec including the Greater Montreal Area. Over 450,000 customers in total were affected.
- On August 2, 2006, nearly a quarter million customers of Hydro One lost power after severe thunderstorms that included tornadoes and damaging wind ripped through southern and eastern Ontario
- On September 12, 2006, parts of east London, U.K., lost power, at approximately 9.15 pm
- On October 24, 2006 in Lima, capital of Peru, an aerostatic balloon accidentally crashed against transmission towers causing a short circuit which affected nearly 13 districts in the capital. The power was restored that same night.
- On the night of November 4, 2006, in parts of Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Spain and Portugal over five million people were left without power after a big cascading breakdown. The root cause was an overload triggered by the German electricity company E.ON switching off an electricity line over the river Ems to allow a cruise ship to pass through safely. The impact of this disconnection on the security of the network had not been properly assessed, and resulted in the European transmission grid splitting into three independent parts for a period of two hours. The imbalance between generation and demand in each section resulted in the power outages for consumers.
- November 15, 2006 a massive wind storm struck the GVRD in BC, Canada causing over 200,000 homes to loose power, in some cases for over a week.
- December 1, 2006 in St. Louis, as a result of a winter storm, about 350,000 power outages.
- On the night of December 1, 2006, in parts of Ontario, tens of thousands of people lost power due to a severe winter storm, resulting in a state of emergency being declared in Russell Township. Blackouts continued into December 2nd. ^[1].
- December 15, 2006, a huge windstorm caused a power failure throughout the Seattle area, causing 1 million people to lose power. Areas like Tacoma, Seattle, Federal Way, Bremerton, Everett, and Bellevue were affected. Parts of coastal British Columbia were also affected.

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