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2017

On March 8, a severe winter windstorm interrupted power for about 1 million customers in the state of Michigan, US. About 730,000 were still without power the next day.[178]

On July 8, an explosion at a Northridge power plant causes a widespread power outage in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles. (LA Times)(Sky News)

On July 27 a crew working on the replacement for the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, U.S., severed a power cable and caused a blackout on the Outer Banks islands which affected more than 7,000 people during the peak of tourist season.[180] The outage lasted eight days.[181]

On September 20, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, knocking out power to the entire island. Restoration efforts involved rebuilding significant parts of the already dilapidated power grid. Only 55% of residents had power back after three months,[183] and as of August 2018, electricity has been finally restored to everyone in the island.[184]

On October 30, combination of the remnants of tropical storm Philippe and an extratropical system resulted in approximately 1.8 million power outages in New England. The storm was particularly bad in Midcoast Maine where roads became impassible for almost a week, leaving many schools to close for 5 to 6 days. This storm has been said to rival the Ice Storm of '98. Many people did not get their power back on for over 10 days in some of the worst hit areas.[citation needed] In Canada, Hydro-Québec reported 200,000 customers losing power because of damages due to strong winds produced by the storm.[185]

On December 7–10, a rare winter storm named Benji came through the southeast states of the United States, causing over 900k customers to lose power

2018

On March 2, a Nor'easter struck the east coast of the U.S, leaving over 2 million people without power.[188]

On April 12, 870,000 customers in Puerto Rico lost power when a tree fell on a major power line near the town of Cayey while workers were clearing vegetation.[190] A week later, on April 18, power was lost to all of Puerto Rico when an excavator repairing 2017 damage from Hurricane Maria hit a line connecting two major power plants.[191] After a request by Governor Ricardo Rossello, the government electricity monopoly, PREPA, terminated its relationship with D. Grimm, the subcontractor responsible for both incidents.[192]

On October 10, Hurricane Michael hit the Gulf Coast of the United States, causing thousands of customers in the Panhandle of Florida, especially Panama City and Port St. Joe, to lose power for up to 10 days.

2019

On June 9, 350,000 people in Dallas County, Texas lost power after a severe thunderstorm downed hundreds of trees across the area. 200,000 remained without power on the evening of June 10[210] and 16,000 on the afternoon of June 12 restored.[211] 41% of traffic signals in the city of Dallas were affected; 496 were temporarily inoperable and 168 reverted to flashing red signals.[212]

Severe thunderstorms, tornadoes and floods caused damage and power outages throughout Wisconsin on Friday, July 19, and Saturday, July 20, disrupting power to more than 277,000 customers[215] during the peak of the outage. Governor Tony Evers declared a statewide state of emergency, with preliminary estimates of damage and cleanup costs of $5.3 million[216] . Some affected customers were still without power a week later.[217]

On July 19, storms and high winds in Michigan caused loss of power to roughly 600,000 to 800,000 customers[218] and left many still without power for 6 days,[219] the second highest number of storm related outages in Michigan power company DTE Energy Co.'s history.[220]

On July 22 at 17:56, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy noted there were over 300,000 people without power in his state,[221] a condition that still affected 200,000 people at 10:54 Tuesday[222] and with some 60,000 residents still without power on Wednesday.[223] There were still some citizens without power on Friday.[224]

Starting on 1 September, Hurricane Dorian damaged transmission systems and caused extensive lengthy power outages in the Bahamas, the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, and in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland in Canada.

On November 1, a major storm left nearly 2,000,000 people without power throughout the northeast United States and southeast Canada. 

2020

From April 12 to April 14, a tornado outbreak moved across the USA from Texas to Maine. Causing 4.3 million customers to lose power, affecting an estimated 9.3 million people.[241] The system created 21 confirmed tornadoes including 2 EF-3s.[242]

From August 3 to August 5 Hurricane Isaias pushed through the USA from South Carolina to New England then up into Canada, causing 6.4 million customers to lose power, affecting an estimated 13.8 million people.[241] With 1.65 million customers affected in New Jersey and 1.19 million customers affected in New York.[241]

On August 10, a derecho moved through the United States across Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana, leaving more than 1 million customers without electricity access; including 250,000 customers in the Chicago area.[citation needed]

From October 26 to 28, an ice storm, bringing snow from New Mexico into the state of Oklahoma and northern Texas, left over 400,000 people without power in Oklahoma for multiple days, with over 40,000 still without power 10 days after. Oklahoma Gas & Electric called it "the worst storm in our company’s history". The storm was especially damaging because leaves were still on the trees and other tall vegetation, causing large limbs to break and fall onto power lines and city streets due to the extra weigh