Causes of Power Outages: Energy Crunches & Weather

why we have power outages and more power outages now than we used to have first of all there's energy crunches they can't supply enough energy to the residential neighborhoods because residential neighborhoods has increased their kilowatt demand or because they're using some of that power from the substation to go to some sort of commercial or industrial Enterprise power outages also come from storm damage things like trees falling down on power lines substations being damaged are even Powerline failures themselves

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